Re: "ifconfig inet 0" vs. DHCP

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 19:36:18 +0100 (BST)

> 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.

Correct.

> So, is "0.0.0.0" meaning "no IP" a bug or a feature?

Its a bug fix. 2.0 actually doesnt quite do everything right for the
DHCP case. Setting the local address to 0.0.0.0 is sort of a hack. People
have already fixed dhcpcd to handle this nicely.

Alan

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