Just wondering, I'm working on a dhcp client changing it to use a SOCK_PACKET socket to send and receive its udp messages, is it possible to enable or bring up the interface in question so that sending and receiving with SOCK_PACKET is possible, but *without* assigning a temporary ip address which the machine will be responding to and/or able to send with ? For example if some program on the machine is trying to send stuff, we preferably dont want it to be able to while we're trying to obtain a lease - since our ip address is invalid. Likewise we dont want to be responding to an address either. Possible ? not possible ? If its not possible, are there any ip addresses which are "not used" which could be assigned temporarily while obtaining a lease ? Also, this is for a 2.0.38 kernel, so any suggestions need to be applicable to that...Thanks... Regards, Simon - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
