Re: Begin testing phase for 2.0.31, README

Jacques Gelinas (jack@solucorp.qc.ca)
Thu, 8 May 1997 06:54:27 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 7 May 1997, Trevor Johnson wrote:

> > > 3) SO_BINDTODEVICE support has been added to the networking,
> > > also there is documentation on it under Documentation/networking
> > > Now the free DHCP server should compile out of the box.
> >
> > This change involved changing a quite significant procedure call interface
> > in the networking section. Is this not something belonging into 2.1.x?
>
> The dhcp-970329 from ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp compiled for me with only
> a couple of minor changes (using the glibc if_arp header file rather than
> the Linux one, and not using the Linux time.h), and worked fine in brief
> testing under 2.0.30. This is the same DHCP daemon that's used in the
> Debian distribution. There are others.

Out of curiosity, with this change, does the dhcp daemon ...

Does it allows operation on a server with multiple network devices now ?

Does it still requires the 255.255.255.255 route ?

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