--- Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Q2 Have the networking issues regarding DHCP been resolved? > > > > No. Nobody is working on this. > > I worked on this. I just have to start hacking again. Perhaps when > I > am less busy with school and GRUB. > > What I did now is putting the netlink code of linux in pfinet. That > makes it possible to do stuff like setting up routes, etc. I just > have to test if it works and clean up my code.
Adding netlink support to pfinet won't contribute much, iproute2 (the only major package afaik that uses netlink) is a bit too dependent on the linux kernel's header files, even where you to fix the dependencies and other minor issues, adding routes wont allow dhcp to work. As I previously told you[0], dhcp needs to forward packets with an address of INADDR_NONE wich can't happen unless the socket tells pfinet wich interface to use, ISC dhcp does that on linux-2.0[1] (even in the single interface case) using the SO_BINDTODEVICE sockopt, you need pfinet to process that option otherwise packets from sockets without a bound device will be dropped in ip_route_output_slow(). Cheers, Kotry [0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-hurd/2003-10/msg00016.html [1] http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/v2-readme.php#5.1.6 > -- > Marco > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-hurd mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
