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[Bug 1001177] Redboot DHCP client race condition, XID, and retryproblems.
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- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:36:08 +0000
- Subject: [Bug 1001177] Redboot DHCP client race condition, XID, and retryproblems.
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--- Comment #5 from Jonathan Larmour <jifl@ecoscentric.com> 2011-03-24 19:36:05 GMT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
>
> I presume that the desired solution would be when waiting for an
> OFFER, if you receive a BOOTP REPLY packet that doesn't have both a
> DHCP cookie and a DHCP type field, you "fall back" to BOOTP mode and
> terminate the transaction with whatever info you can glean from the
> BOOTP REPLY packet?
IMHO, yes.
(And if someone has a BOOTP and DHCP server on the same subnet, they deserve
what they get).
Jifl
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