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From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
To: Shiva Raman Pandey <shiva@sasken.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Router Discovery Messages
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 16:36:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020206163633.B20396@mea-ext.zmailer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a3r2k6$rk3$1@ncc-z.sasken.com>
In-Reply-To: <a3r2k6$rk3$1@ncc-z.sasken.com>; from shiva@sasken.com on Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:37:21PM +0530

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:37:21PM +0530, Shiva Raman Pandey wrote:
> Can any body tell me, whether the ICMP Router Discovery Messages (RFC 1256)
> are implemented in Linux kernel code of version 2.2.14 or 2.4.9 or not?
> If yes then in which .c file(s) and .h(files) ?

   It is not supported in kernel.
   It is alike BOOTP/DHCP client, fully implementable in usermode process.

   To be exact, RFC 1256 predates BOOTP, which was created to solve this
   same problem, plus a bunch of other issues.  The DHCP is just refinement
   of BOOTP.

> Regards
> Shiva

/Matti Aarnio

      reply	other threads:[~2002-02-06 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-06 11:07 Shiva Raman Pandey
2002-02-06 14:36 ` Matti Aarnio [this message]

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