Re: dhclient dependency on bpf ?

2009-10-23 Thread Alex
probably because it needs to get packets that are directed to broadcast and not your machine. Just take a look at the source code. Sincerely, Alex Hornung

Re: dhclient dependency on bpf ?

2009-10-23 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: Offcourse, i enabled 'bpf' and i'm keen to know what is the reason for 'bpf' dependency ? Please see http://ftp.isc.org/www/dhcp/doc/References.html#anchor3 Search for Berkeley Packet Filter and BPF and read thaty paragraph. (It should be included in

Re: dhclient dependency on bpf ?

2009-10-23 Thread Saifi Khan
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: Offcourse, i enabled 'bpf' and i'm keen to know what is the reason for 'bpf' dependency ? Please see http://ftp.isc.org/www/dhcp/doc/References.html#anchor3 Search for Berkeley Packet Filter and BPF

Re: dhclient dependency on bpf ?

2009-10-23 Thread Saifi Khan
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Alex wrote: probably because it needs to get packets that are directed to broadcast and not your machine. Just take a look at the source code. Sincerely, Alex Hornung Alex Hornung, thank you for the suggestion. i looked at the code at sbin/dhclient and found the