Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:46:14 -0400 From: Vinesh Christopher <vineshc@ami.com> To: 'Ben Smithurst' <ben@FreeBSD.org>, Alan Edmonds <aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Wrong Broadcast Address - Ping by name fails Message-ID: <4A78850EF802D211BB3900805FFE55550BA87D@atl_es1.megatrends.com>
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Thanks. It worked.
I applied the patch on /usr/src/contrib/isc-dhcp/client/dhclient.c
and did a "make all install" in /usr/src/sbin/dhclient
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Smithurst [SMTP:ben@FreeBSD.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 12:18 PM
> To: Alan Edmonds
> Cc: Vinesh Christopher; freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Wrong Broadcast Address - Ping by name fails
>
> Alan Edmonds wrote:
>
> > Ditto here. The wrong bcast addr is preventing ntpd receiving
> > broadcast ntp packets. It only happens with DHCP client
> > machines. The static IP 4.1-RELEASE machine works fine.
>
> I've reported this to David O'Brien (DHCP maintainer in FreeBSD) and Ted
> Lemon (DHCP maintainer at ISC) and the problem has been fixed in the ISC
> tree. I think David is going to bring the fix into FreeBSD soon.
>
> If you can't wait, the fix is trivial:
>
> RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/contrib/isc-dhcp/client/dhclient.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.16
> diff -u -r1.16 dhclient.c
> --- dhclient.c 2000/07/20 19:51:37 1.16
> +++ dhclient.c 2000/07/27 12:21:38
> @@ -1972,7 +1972,7 @@
> if (broadcast.len) {
> client_envadd (ip -> client,
> prefix,
> "broadcast_address",
> - "%s", piaddr (subnet));
> + "%s", piaddr
> (broadcast));
> }
> }
> }
>
> The whitespaces have probably been screwed by cut-n-paste, so you'll
> probably have to use 'patch -l' or apply it manually.
>
> --
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