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From: Christopher Fowler <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:32:29 +0000
Subject: Re: sending raw packets via PPP
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To: Kevin K <k_krieser@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: James Carlson <carlsonj@workingcode.com>, linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, Linux-kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 19:24 -0500, Kevin K wrote:
> The DHCP source code therefore wants  
> to send raw packets (SOCKET_PACKET) (down to the ethernet addressing  
> info).  

I can imagine that would be the case.  The box requesting the DHCP
address has no IP address.  Therefore TCP/IP can not be used at that
point to communicate between the two.  I've not had to look at the DHCP
code to see how this works.