bin/96018: dhclient broadcasts unicast DHCPREQUEST renewals

[Christopher Chin]

The following reply was made to PR bin/96018; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christopher Chin <cchin at ack.Berkeley.EDU>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/96018: dhclient broadcasts unicast DHCPREQUEST renewals
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:38:15 -0700 (PDT)

 FTR,
 
 I've upgraded to stable, but there's still no fix to 
 the the function of of /sbin/dhclient
 
 FreeBSD bubble.Berkeley.EDU 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #2: Wed Jun 14 13:19:04 PDT 2006     cchin at bubble.Berkeley.EDU:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BUBBLE  i386
 
 
     bubble (cchin):/home/cchin# dhclient -d wi0
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
     DHCPACK from 169.229.201.1
     bound to 169.229.201.44 -- renewal in 485 seconds.
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
     DHCPACK from 169.229.201.1
     bound to 169.229.201.44 -- renewal in 247 seconds.
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 169.229.252.130 port 67
     DHCPREQUEST on wi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
     DHCPACK from 169.229.201.1
     bound to 169.229.201.44 -- renewal in 454 seconds.
 
 
 lather, rinse, repeat....
 
 
 The "unicast" renewal requests are still marked as 
 broadcast on the link level.
 
 Instead of the ethernet address of the dhcp server (or
 the router), the destination is marked all 1s.
 
 As such, unicast renewal requests are NOT forwarded 
 to their destination.
 
   - Christopher
 
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