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From: Mark Broadbent <markb@wetlettuce.com>
To: Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1: ip auto-config accepts wrong packages
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:04:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093439062.25506.12.camel@mbpc.signal.qinetiq.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <412C5E80.8050603@bio.ifi.lmu.de>

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 10:40, Frank Steiner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we are running a diskless client system using kernel ip autoconfiguration.
> The problem is that sometimes clients accept packages that are meant
> for other clients.
> 
> ...
>
> I wasn't able to reproduce the problem from the command line using
> dhclient, so I'm not sure if this is a general problem with dhcp or
> a problem in the ip-autoconfig code of the client.

Try enabling the debug messaging in the ipconfig code.  Edit the file
net/ipv4/ipconfig.c just below the #include's and change the line 

#undef IPCONFIG_DEBUG

to

#define IPCONFIG_DEBUG

and rebuild.  Post the outputs from both machines when you see this
effect again.

> Server and Clients both run 2.6.8.1 and the dhcp server is the ISC DHCP
> server version 3.0.1rc12.


Thanks
Mark

> cu,
> Frank

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-25 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-25  9:40 Frank Steiner
2004-08-25 13:04 ` Mark Broadbent [this message]
2004-08-25 14:41   ` Frank Steiner
2004-08-25 15:47     ` Mark Broadbent
2004-08-26  6:39       ` Frank Steiner
2004-08-26 10:31       ` Frank Steiner
2004-08-26 16:17         ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-08-27 11:42           ` Frank Steiner

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