Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:40:19 GMT From: Christopher Chin <cchin@ack.Berkeley.EDU> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/96018: dhclient broadcasts unicast DHCPREQUEST renewals Message-ID: <200606142240.k5EMeJ1p049784@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/96018; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Christopher Chin <cchin@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: bin/96018: dhclient broadcasts unicast DHCPREQUEST renewals
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:38:15 -0700 (PDT)
FTR,
I've upgraded to stable, but there's still no fix to
the the function of of /sbin/dhclient
FreeBSD bubble.Berkeley.EDU 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #2: Wed Jun 14 13:19:04 PDT 2006 cchin@bubble.Berkeley.EDU:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BUBBLE i386
bubble (cchin):/home/cchin# dhclient -d wi0
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 169.229.201.1
bound to 169.229.201.44 -- renewal in 485 seconds.
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 169.229.201.1
bound to 169.229.201.44 -- renewal in 247 seconds.
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 169.229.201.1
bound to 169.229.201.44 -- renewal in 454 seconds.
lather, rinse, repeat....
The "unicast" renewal requests are still marked as
broadcast on the link level.
Instead of the ethernet address of the dhcp server (or
the router), the destination is marked all 1s.
As such, unicast renewal requests are NOT forwarded
to their destination.
- Christopher
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