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Re: [PATCH v2 8/9] net: dhcp: actually send out DHCPv4 DISCOVER and REQU


From: Daniel Kiper
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 8/9] net: dhcp: actually send out DHCPv4 DISCOVER and REQUEST messages
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:19:59 +0100
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 05:46:59PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
> From: Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden>
>
> Even though we were parsing some DHCP options sent by the server, so far
> we are only using the BOOTP 2-way handshake, even when talking to a DHCP
> server.
>
> Change this by actually sending out DHCP DISCOVER packets instead of the
> generic (mostly empty) BOOTP BOOTREQUEST packets.
>
> A pure BOOTP server would ignore the extra DHCP options in the DISCOVER
> packet and would just reply with a BOOTREPLY packet, which we also
> handle in the code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <address@hidden>

Daniel



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