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Thanks for your suggestions.  His broadcast code helped a lot and then I was 
able to figure out what you suggested here of setting the IP to 0.0.0.0, so 
I've had good success.  I have more status coming in another post.

--David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openbeosnetteam-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:openbeosnetteam-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Emmanuel Jacobs
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 07:34
> To: openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [openbeosnetteam] Re: DHCP Status + Help Needed
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>     Just my 0.02 Eur:
> 
>     The problem here is a double one:
>     1) we need to support the broadcast option (see code 
> provided by Ingo)
>     2) an IP packet for DHCP protocol should be able to leave 
> the NIC with no IP address configured for it (source IP==0.0.0.0).
>        May be configuring the nic to have an ip of 0.0.0.0 
> (via ifconfig) could work but doing so we must be prudent not 
> to allow "any" traffic to go in/out (ARP should be disabled, 
> at least for 0.0.0.0 IP's, only DHCP/BOOTP should be enabled).
> 
>      Regards, 
> 
>          Emmanuel
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : openbeosnetteam-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:openbeosnetteam-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de 
> Ingo Weinhold Envoyé : mercredi 13 octobre 2004 0:16 À : 
> openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Objet : [openbeosnetteam] Re: 
> DHCP Status + Help Needed
> 
> 
> On 2004-10-12 at 23:56:04 [+0200], David Enderson wrote:
> > Networking Team,
> > 
> > I'm into my second week of unpaid vacation and have spent 
> part of the
> > time working on the Haiku DHCP implementation as promised.  
> I've got a 
> > nearly complete understanding of the RFC and I've enough of 
> the client 
> > together for some test messages with a DHCP server.
> > 
> > (This is where the "Help Needed" part comes in)
> > 
> > What I'm lacking is the ability to broadcast a UDP packet.  I have
> > googled for numerous examples and have been thoroughly 
> frustrated.  I 
> > think I can send a UDP packet, but I can't get broadcast to 
> work.  I 
> > implemented a working sockets implementation for an open 
> source game a 
> > while back, so I think I can do this, I just need the...rosetta 
> > stone...if you will for UDP.
> > 
> > Can anyone point me towards excellent, simple, and COMPILEABLE 
> > examples?
> 
> I just very recently learned how to do broadcasting myself. 
> Attached is my test app. It's definitely simple and compiles 
> and runs under R5. About the `excellent' part I don't know.
> 
> Note that POSIX defines the socket option SO_BROADCAST, that 
> -- if I understand it correctly -- has to be set (via 
> setsockopt()) for both the socket of the sender and the 
> receiver. Since R5 doesn't know this option, I can't set it. 
> Don't know, if it is required for BONE/our stack.
> 
> CU, Ingo
> 
> 
> 
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