ok than I will just port my stuff under BeOS..I have no time this week but I hope next week I will do it.. I could also start working at a DHCP server and other DHCP non-standard stuff.. regards, Valentin > -----Original Message----- > From: Axel Dörfler" [mailto:axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Donnerstag, 7. November 2002 16:06 > To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [openbeos] Re: StyledEdit issues : text encodings,opentracker > integration, etc. > > > "Chira, Valentin" <Chira@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hy..I have a question. I am not a BeOS programmer guru..but I would > > like to > > contribute with an DHCP client to OBOS. I have it writen(using > > Winsock.. but > > portable) already but I must start and create a configuration > > interface or > > something like that..but this is no problem. My question to you is > > how can I > > include this in BeOS?I want to port it(that shouldn't take long) > > create the > > interface and somehow test it but I have no clue how can I do that. > > How > > should a DHCP client run? as an net_server add on? does somebody > > knows how > > can I change IP in BeOS? in OBOS I was able to see how ny > looking at > > the > > ipconfig.cpp from CVS but I would like to test it under BeOS5..can > > you help > > me with this? > > R5 networking is completely different from how the networking will be > in OpenBeOS. You just can't test it completely - but what could do is > having a working DHCP client which will just print out the > config data > without actually doing anything. > This would be enough for a proof of concept, and it would be > very easy > to adapt it to a fully working DHCP client later on. > BTW thanks! :-) > > Adios... > Axel. > > >