thx for info. I never tried to start OpenBeOS before but I will try it. I hope I can install it easily. Can you tell me what is the status of OpenBeOS? is it installable? Do you have some Installation guide? or just the readme file from CVS? I am no DHCP guru myself too but I like network programming and I was thinking to do something usefull..so why not. The problem is that for routable DHCP I need BOOTP protocol..so..but anyhow this are details. I would like to join your project. can someone tell me a minimum configuration for OpenBEOS? can I run it nice on a Pentium 1 133MHZ? I know about BeOS.. Another thing is that..if I want to join your team what do I need to do?I would like to write a network monitor also..in the future..or if DHCP seems like a impossible task than maybe I will do it now. I think a network monitor(sniffer) is more than usefull..I will take a look at the work done until now for TCP/IP stack to have a better inside. regards Valentin > -----Original Message----- > From: Philippe Houdoin [mailto:philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx] > Sent: Freitag, 18. Oktober 2002 14:57 > To: openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [openbeosnetteam] Re: hy, I want to write a DHCP client > > > Quoting Valentin: > > Hy, I want to start writing a DHCP client for (Open)BeOs. > > Can someone give me some information about how to change the IP > > addres and things like that that I need for DHCP? > > Well, for vanilla BeOS you can't, as the dhcp is builtin in > net_server and > there no way to change programmaticly interface IP address. > > For BONE and our OpenBeOS net stack, look at ifconfig app, and even > better look at our ifconfig code (in OBOS CVS under > current/src/apps/bin/ifconfig) to see how to set/change IP > address of an > interface on OBOS net stack. > > For DHCP protocol implementation, I guess the raw socket > support should allow > you send and listen for DHCP UDP packet(s). Let's hope it > won't need to > be integrate deeper in the stack, like ARP!... > > I'm not a DHCP guru myself, where's my TCP/IP Bible!? > > Oh, BTW, I'm glad to see someone to step in for this DHCP task! > Thanks. > > -Philippe >