[haiku-commits] Re: r38356 - haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/kernel/network/protocols/ipv4

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:59:53 +0200

Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:54 AM,  <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > * IPv4 must always set the net_buffer::interface_address on
> > incoming buffers; it
> >  didn't do that for broadcasts - this is still not a full solution
> > as it won't
> >  work for link layer broadcasts, but this should fix most DHCP
> > problems.
> Could that by any chance have been related to the issues that I
> sometimes saw where DHCP would assign a new address around renewal
> time? Haven't been able to replicate that one in a while though.

It could, although I would find it a bit odd that the router would use
a different broadcast address mode on lease renewal.

Bye,
   Axel.


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