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
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
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
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