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 used at that point to communicate between the two. I've not had to look at the DHCP code to see how this works. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html