Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 19:14:52 -0700 From: "Qing Li" <qingli@speakeasy.net> To: "'George Neville-Neil'" <gnn@neville-neil.com>, "'Qing Li'" <qingli@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: svn commit: r192085 - head/sys/netinet Message-ID: <20090515021449.A9EDB8FC1C@mx1.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <9CCFD49C-C5B3-4C45-BA74-AC29CF1F0EDA@neville-neil.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: George Neville-Neil [mailto:gnn@neville-neil.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 7:36 AM > To: Qing Li > Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org; svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org; > svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: svn commit: r192085 - head/sys/netinet > > > On May 13, 2009, at 22:27 , Qing Li wrote: > > > Author: qingli > > Date: Thu May 14 05:27:09 2009 > > New Revision: 192085 > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/192085 > > > > Log: > > Ignore the INADDR_ANY address inserted/deleted by DHCP when > > installing a loopback route to the interface address. > > > > > Can you give more detail as to the purpose of this change? > I'm a bit confused by it. Does this fix any of the recent > problems seen with DHCP and PXE or is this unrelated? > The DHCP client code adds a 0.0.0.0 address and then deletes it once the server assign the node a real IP. It's easily Observed by running dhclient followed by netstat. I had to take care of this DHCP related bits before, e.g., not creating an ARP entry for it. That's really it. Exactly which part is confusing you ? -- Qing
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