Re: [DHCP]

["Soren S. Jorvang" <soren@wheel.dk>]

On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 09:47:36AM -0700, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> I also had difficulty using ISC dhcpd to boot SGIs until I did an
> unsetenv netaddr before booting. I don't yet know why this works.

Ted fixed dhcpd for SGI some time ago. I am not sure if it has
made into 3.0.

--- server/bootp.c.orig Fri Apr  9 19:55:02 1999
+++ server/bootp.c      Wed Dec  8 00:23:16 1999
@@ -348,6 +348,16 @@
                                              from, &to, &hto);
                        return;
                }
+
+       /* If it comes from a client that already knows its address
+          and is not requesting a broadcast response, and we can
+          unicast to a client without using the ARP protocol, sent it
+          directly to that client. */
+       } else if (!(raw.flags & htons (BOOTP_BROADCAST)) &&
+                  can_unicast_without_arp()) {
+               to.sin_addr = raw.yiaddr;
+               to.sin_port = remote_port;
+
        /* Otherwise, broadcast it on the local network. */
        } else {
                to.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_BROADCAST;


-- 
Soren