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Re: Berkley Packet Filter? (Or DHCP.)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Thu Jul 13 05:26:32 1995
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: jered@vorlon.mit.edu
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 09:47:50 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199507100043.UAA10739@vorlon.mit.edu> from "jered@vorlon.mit.edu" at Jul 9, 95 08:43:57 pm
> I'd like to use DHCP under Linux, but the only implementation that I have
> found requires the Berkeley Packet Filter, which I have not been able to
> find. Is there an implementation of the Berkeley Packet Filter for Linux?
> Or, can you suggest a DHCP implementation that does not require it?
There is a library for doing BPF under Linux (its part of the Linux
tcpdump port). Functionality is the same but BPF lives in user space. As far
as DHCP goes there is a bootpd with DHCP patches (not dynamic leases) floating
around. This doesnt use BPF.
Alan
