DHCP discover

[Eduardo Fleury]

I'm not familiar with this code but AFAIK the request is not sent using
sockets (which are point-to-point) but using ethernet broadcast.
On 10/19/07, Arut Selvan <arut at techie.com> wrote:
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> Hi Folks, I would like to know how a DHCP client could bind to a socket
> without having an IP address. We can't use the IP stack without a
> valid IP address, so is the socket layer bypassed until a valid IP
> address is received ?Does the DHCP client build a DHCP message and
> directly pass it layer 2 or something. Please explain. Thanks.
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