Re: [PATCH] The DHCPREQUEST message should contain the same 'xid' as the DHCPOFFER message

[Michael Jones <mjones@linear.com>]

Jurgen,

I typically put these in bugzilla with an explanation. That is where people look for patches before they are part of the source tree. As far as I can tell, it is the only way patches become part of the code base.

Mike

On Feb 12, 2014, at 6:08 AM, Lambrecht Jürgen <J.Lambrecht@TELEVIC.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I found a bug and fixed it, so I don't know if I need to use bugzilla 
> for that?
> In attach the patch.
> 
> file: net/common/current/src/dhcp_prot.c
> 
> According to RFC 2131 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2131.html): "The 
> DHCPREQUEST message contains the same 'xid' as the DHCPOFFER message."
> So in a DHCP DORA cycle (Discover-Offer-Request-Acknowledge) the same 
> transaction ID should be used ('xid' in C code).
> We never had problems with that, but now we have a strict customer..
> 
> Kind regards,
> Jürgen
> 
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