Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765921AbXHGBkv (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:40:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758578AbXHGBkm (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:40:42 -0400 Received: from 66-23-224-81.clients.speedfactory.net ([66.23.224.81]:39080 "EHLO shuttle.linxdev.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751143AbXHGBkl (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:40:41 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 4083 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:40:40 EDT Subject: Re: sending raw packets via PPP From: Christopher Fowler To: Kevin K Cc: James Carlson , linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, Linux-kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <35B9865F-38B4-4603-A2B7-F4ABACE5520F@sbcglobal.net> <18103.44797.529894.786033@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:32:29 -0400 Message-Id: <1186446749.29150.40.camel@shuttle.linxdev.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 (2.10.3-1.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 659 Lines: 17 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/