DHCP discover

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 16:21 -0200, Eduardo Fleury wrote:
> 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.

Agreed, it also uses an IP of 0.0.0.0 in the 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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