dhclient and bootp broadcast

[Lars Fredriksen]

Hi,
I ran into a problem recently with the following config:

    freebsd client -> wireless repeater -> wireless AP

It turned out that our packets from our dhclient was not seen by the 
Wireless AP. Windows XP had no such problems. After a little digging, it 
turns out that the windows XP dhclient sends out the REQUEST packet with 
the BOOTP broadcast flag set, and our dhclient does not.

I contacted the maintainer of the openbsd dhclient software, but he 
seemed uninterested in picking up my patches (adds a option to set the 
BootP broadcast flag).

My question is this:  Is this only a problem because of buggy hardware 
(wireless repeater in this case) and thus we should not support 
workarounds, or is this something we should add as an enhancement to our 
dhclient even if the openbsd folks are not interested?

Thanks,

Lars