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[Andrew Waterman <awater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That makes sense to me.  As you know, its not a huge amount of low level
code .. if you write it in straight C against POSIX -- not being a huge
beos user, (and not a devloper on that platform up until my small
investigations as of late) -- I'm not sure how involved this is with the
current IP stack ....

best,

A

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, David Enderson wrote:

> Thanks for your kind words, Andrew.
>
> In Philippe's reply to my original email to him, he said that he would
> like to see DHCP support completed and bug tested by year end.  I
> believe I can meet this timeline.  On openbeos.org, under DHCP support,
> you have this:
>
> - DHCP protocol module
> - dhconfig command tool to query and enable/disable DHCP on an interface
> basis
>
> What I was thinking is that the easiest and most logical first step
> would be for me to first get a command-line tool working that would
> query a DHCP server and set the local IP.  That would ease me into the
> process and then after that I could focus on getting the details of the
> protocol supported and integrating it into the rest of the networking
> system.
>
> Do you all think that plan would work?
>
> --David
>
>

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