On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 05:50:52PM +0000, Antony Stone wrote: > On Sunday 11 January 2004 5:39 pm, Håkan Engblom wrote: > > > Yes, I've come to realize that. > > > > Is it technically necessary for the dhcp-server to do so, or could it be > > that some other dhcpd behaves different ? > > It is technically necessary, because DHCP clients do not have IP addressing > information when they begin the communication; everything is done using > ethernet broadcasts. Such packets cannot be acquired using a standard > socket bind, so the server application needs to listen at a lower level than > the TCP/IP stack allows. I guess he's asking why dhcp-server uses NETLINK. Your answer is for the clients, right? Ramin
