Subject: Re: BOOTP support (change request)
To: None <cjs@portal.ca>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 05/21/1997 15:42:58
> Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 12:32:55 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
[...]
> Thinking about it, though, your source address for bootp requests
> is supposed to be 0.0.0.0 anyway, right? So it makes sense to [...]

Yes, the BOOTP request is supposed to go out with IP address zero.
That is why I'm trying to make the network stack work (partially)
with an interface that has address zero.

It might only partially work in the sense that it can obviously
not answer ARP requests for its address until it gets a real one.

Gordon