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Re: dhcp problem after recompiling kernel



>>>>> "Auke" == Auke Jilderda <jilderda@dds.nl> writes:

Auke> Why do I need the CONFIG_FILTER for DHCP?  Seems unrelated to me.

Me too.  From what I can tell (from
/usr/share/doc/dhcp3-client/dhcp-on-linux.txt), it seems Linux doesn't
allow network interfaces to be bound to 0.0.0.0, which is required for
dhcp.  So dhclient needs to use CONFIG_FILTER to work around it.  How
pump does it, I don't know.

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