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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 13:20:43 +1100 (EST)
From: Neale Banks <neale@lowendale.com.au>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 2.2] DHCP-client-related options in Configure.help
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Appended patch against 2.2.24-rc1 updates Documentation/Configure.help
re options which are required to support DHCP client.

Thanks,
Neale.

--- linux-2.2.24-rc1/Documentation/Configure.help	Sat Nov 30 05:05:55 2002
+++ linux-2.2.24-rc1-ntb0/Documentation/Configure.help	Sat Dec 21 19:02:23 2002
@@ -1364,7 +1364,9 @@
   certain types of data to get through the socket. Linux Socket
   Filtering works on all socket types except TCP for now. See the text
   file linux/Documentation/networking/filter.txt for more information.
-  If unsure, say N.
+  If unsure, say N unless the host may be using DHCP to configure its
+  own address (the DHCP client requires this and 'Packet socket') - in
+  that case say Y.
 
 Network firewalls
 CONFIG_FIREWALL
@@ -4152,6 +4154,7 @@
   module, say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt.  You will
   need to add 'alias net-pf-17 af_packet' to your /etc/conf.modules
   file for the module version to function automatically.  If unsure, say Y.
+  Note that DHCP client requires this and 'Socket filtering'.
 
 Kernel/User network link driver
 CONFIG_NETLINK

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