svn commit: r271418 - head/sbin/dhclient

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Sep 12 20:35:12 UTC 2014


On Thursday, September 11, 2014 06:15:34 PM Hiroki Sato wrote:
> Andriy Gapon <avg at FreeBSD.org> wrote
>   in <541163C0.2080903 at FreeBSD.org>:
> 
> av> On 11/09/2014 11:11, Robert Watson wrote:
> av> > A bit behind on commits, but: does this mean that an older userspace
> dhclient av> > will no longer work with a newer kernel?
> av>
> av> At least in my case it appeared to work.  I guess this is because the
> broadcast av> queries were not affected by the change.
> 
>  Only a unicast DHCPREQUEST sent from a DHCP client to renew the lease
>  does not work.  "dhclient[N]: send_packet: Invalid argument" log
>  appears at certain interval due to it.  A lease will expire, and it
>  will repeatedly restart from the broadcast discovery phase.

Ah, I've seen that for a while on my laptop.  Thanks for tracking that down!

-- 
John Baldwin


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