Now that seems reasonable on the face of it, but I spent a few hours
last night working around it -- because even though you can send DHCP
requests over such an interface, absolutely _no_ incoming packets are
processed, even if the packets are hardware broadcasts and there's an
existing UDP socket ready and waiting.
Now, you may say that you're supposed to set a _real_ IP address for
an interface before you use it, and that's usually true -- but there's
no way to do that here, because the whole point of DHCP is to *get*
the IP address, because you don't know what it is yet.
So, is "0.0.0.0" meaning "no IP" a bug or a feature?
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