Zephaniah E, Hull
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Sergei Viznyuk wrote:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: 04 Feb 1998 17:12:57 -0500
> From: Steve Dunham <dunham@cps.msu.edu>
> To: Sergei Viznyuk <sviznyuk@columbus.rr.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: DHCPD v1.3 needs testing
>
> >"Sergei Viznyuk" <sviznyuk@columbus.rr.com> writes:
> >
> >> The new dhcpcd-1.3
> >> source is available for testing
> >> at
> >> ftp://204.210.228.4/pub
> >>
> >> Most important changes
> >> from previous version (0.70):
> >>
> >> 1. Rewrote everything. Made it work with new
> >> kernels.
> >> 2. dhcpcd now operates in "raw" mode using
> >> socket(AF_PACKET,SOCK_PACKET,..)
> >> 3. dhcpcd now will fork into background
> >> only after it configures the interface and gets
> >> into "bound" state.
> >> If dhcpcd is unable to configure the interface
> >> it will timeout (60 secs by default).
> >> Hence 'dhcpcd -c filename' syntax is gone.
> >> Instead, the following works in bootup scripts:
> >
> > It doesn't work. It uses "giaddr", which is the "Relay agent IP
> > address", for the default gateway address (this number is 0, unless
> > the dhcp server is on a different subnet). The gateway address is
> > should to be gotten through the "routersOnSubnet" option. (This is
> > easy to fix.)
>
> OK, I fixed that. (Just one line in client.c file...)
>
> > Also, it segfaults if the server doesn't provide T1 and T2 times in
> > options. Servers are not required to set these options. In fact the
> > rfc does not say that they "SHOULD" - so this is left entirely to the
> > sysadmin/author of the server. (We use one of the common unix servers,
> > and it's not including these options. They have default values
> > specified in the RFC of 0.5 and 0.875 times the lease time.)
> >
> > It would also segfault if the subnetmask option isn't sent, but I
> > don't know if this can happen.
>
> Fixing that might require a dozen more/less lines of code
> and as I stated before I'm not going to maintain the source
> as long as it works perfectly for me (with Time Warner RR).
>
> However I will gladly fix some minor things like the one
> with routersOnSubnet instead of giaddr and I will be
> happy to assist and answer any questions about dhcpcd-1.3..
>
> The somewhat "fixed" dhcpcd-1.3.tar.gz is available
> at ftp://phystech.com/pub
>
> > Steve
> > dunham@cps.msu.edu
>
> Sergei
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