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 f

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

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

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

dhclient dependency on bpf ?

2009-10-23 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: In a custom kernel configuration, i disabled 'bpf'. On, running the following command: amd64x2# dhclient nfe0 the following output is seen, got link Oct 22 20:24:14 amd64x2 dhclient[850]: Can't find free bpf: No such file or directory Can't find free bpf: No such file or directory Oct 22 2