From dea75bdfa57f75a7a7ec2961ec28db506c18e5db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:03:49 -0800 Subject: [IPCONFIG]: The kernel gets no IP from some DHCP servers From: Stephen Hemminger Based upon a patch by Marcel Wappler: This patch fixes a DHCP issue of the kernel: some DHCP servers (i.e. in the Linksys WRT54Gv5) are very strict about the contents of the DHCPDISCOVER packet they receive from clients. Table 5 in RFC2131 page 36 requests the fields 'ciaddr' and 'siaddr' MUST be set to '0'. These DHCP servers ignore Linux kernel's DHCP discovery packets with these two fields set to '255.255.255.255' (in contrast to popular DHCP clients, such as 'dhclient' or 'udhcpc'). This leads to a not booting system. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net') diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c index 10013ccee8dd..5dd938579eeb 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c @@ -753,9 +753,9 @@ static void __init ic_bootp_send_if(struct ic_device *d, unsigned long jiffies_d printk("Unknown ARP type 0x%04x for device %s\n", dev->type, dev->name); b->htype = dev->type; /* can cause undefined behavior */ } + + /* server_ip and your_ip address are both already zero per RFC2131 */ b->hlen = dev->addr_len; - b->your_ip = NONE; - b->server_ip = NONE; memcpy(b->hw_addr, dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len); b->secs = htons(jiffies_diff / HZ); b->xid = d->xid; -- cgit v1.2.1