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.
next prev parent 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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