On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: > > > Offcourse, i enabled 'bpf' and i'm keen to know what is the > > reason for 'bpf' dependency ? > > Please see > > http://ftp.isc.org/www/dhcp/doc/References.html#anchor3 > Search for "Berkeley Packet Filter" and "BPF" and read thaty paragraph. > > (It should be included in every ISC DHCP distribution as > doc/References.html.) > > I don't know what the equivalent replacement for BPF (or if there is) > for DragonFly. >
Jeremy, thank you for sharing the excellent link. The documentation says, ... dhclient needs the BPF pseudo-device to program a filter, that brings in only the DHCP packets. ... thanks Saifi.
