Subject: Re: kernel noise..
To: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
From: Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/09/1997 14:09:20
> Since this is quite normal behaviour for BOOTP/DHCP clients when they
> first broadcast their discovery packets, I consider this logging (to the
> console, per the default syslog.conf) as rather useless noise.

Actually, that's not quite right.   DHCP/BOOTP clients are not
supposed to respond to ARP request broadcasts when their address is
0.0.0.0 - otherwise, you wind up having arp cache wars when multiple
clients are trying to boot.   Not that this matters much, since we
never try to transmit to 0.0.0.0, but nonetheless...

			       _MelloN_