[openbeos] Re: OBOS Networking
- From: Clay Vincent Schentrup <cvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 13:01:14 -0500
>dhcpd (d=daemon) monitors the interface for any packet from the DHCP
>server, like lease info, telling back it wants to reuse it (this resets
>the lease counter in the DHCP server), for example.
>dhcp_client is just a program to run dhcpd, and initiate the dialog with
>the dhcp server, to allocate a lease.
Well, if that's all it's doing, and there are open-source POSIX dhcpd's
out there..then what exactly does it mean for me to be working on DHCP for
OBOS? What exactly is there to do? I need some way of understanding _how_ the
rest of the stack is going to interface with dhcpd/dhcp_client.
If anyone could even point me to a reference, I'd be happy to read it. I
can read specs about interfacing with a DHCP server all day, but if I don't
know how the code needs to be used with the OBOS net stack, it's no good.
Sorry if this sounds clueless; I'm a good coder and can go by specs..but only
if I have those specs. :)
Clay
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