Re: sending raw packets via PPP

2007-08-19 Thread Kevin K
On Aug 6, 2007, at 6:30 PM, James Carlson wrote: Kevin K writes: Is it possible to send raw packets via ppp under Linux? More specifically, in 2.4 series kernels such as RH's 2.4.21-47 kernel? I've trying to modify the DHCP 3.0.1 code provided with RH 3 so I can send requests via a PPP co

Re: sending raw packets via PPP

2007-08-07 Thread Kevin K
On Aug 7, 2007, at 5:30 AM, James Carlson wrote: Matt Keenan writes: Kevin K wrote: I'll give it a try to see whether packets sent to 255.255.255.255 can make it to ppp with the IP address unchanged. You should be able to make DHCP work by sending ordinary unicast UDP packets to the peer.

Re: sending raw packets via PPP

2007-08-07 Thread James Carlson
Christopher Fowler writes: > 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

Re: sending raw packets via PPP

2007-08-07 Thread James Carlson
Matt Keenan writes: > Kevin K wrote: > > I'll give it a try to see whether packets sent to 255.255.255.255 can > > make it to ppp with the IP address unchanged. You should be able to make DHCP work by sending ordinary unicast UDP packets to the peer. There shouldn't be any need to hack around wit

Re: sending raw packets via PPP

2007-08-07 Thread Matt Keenan
Kevin K wrote: > > On Aug 6, 2007, at 6:30 PM, James Carlson wrote: > >> Kevin K writes: >>> Is it possible to send raw packets via ppp under Linux? >>> >>> More specifically, in 2.4 series kernels such as RH's 2.4.21-47 kernel? >>> >>> I've trying to modify the DHCP 3.0.1 code provided with RH 3 s

Re: sending raw packets via PPP

2007-08-06 Thread Christopher Fowler
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

Re: sending raw packets via PPP

2007-08-06 Thread Kevin K
On Aug 6, 2007, at 6:30 PM, James Carlson wrote: Kevin K writes: Is it possible to send raw packets via ppp under Linux? More specifically, in 2.4 series kernels such as RH's 2.4.21-47 kernel? I've trying to modify the DHCP 3.0.1 code provided with RH 3 so I can send requests via a PPP co

Re: sending raw packets via PPP

2007-08-06 Thread James Carlson
Kevin K writes: > Is it possible to send raw packets via ppp under Linux? > > More specifically, in 2.4 series kernels such as RH's 2.4.21-47 kernel? > > I've trying to modify the DHCP 3.0.1 code provided with RH 3 so I can > send requests via a PPP connection (standard RS-232), and it is just

sending raw packets via PPP

2007-08-06 Thread Kevin K
Is it possible to send raw packets via ppp under Linux? More specifically, in 2.4 series kernels such as RH's 2.4.21-47 kernel? I've trying to modify the DHCP 3.0.1 code provided with RH 3 so I can send requests via a PPP connection (standard RS-232), and it is just being dropped by the stac