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From: Christopher Fowler <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com>
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>
Subject: Re: sending raw packets via PPP
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:32:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1186446749.29150.40.camel@shuttle.linxdev.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E210D1E9-9265-48EE-91BB-E6027547F01E@sbcglobal.net>

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.




  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-07  1:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-06 22:45 sending raw packets via PPP Kevin K
2007-08-06 23:30 ` James Carlson
2007-08-07  0:24   ` Kevin K
2007-08-07  0:32     ` Christopher Fowler [this message]
2007-08-07 10:33       ` James Carlson
2007-08-07  8:46     ` Matt Keenan
2007-08-07 10:30       ` James Carlson
2007-08-07 16:53         ` Kevin K
2007-08-19 23:46   ` Kevin K

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