svn commit: r192085 - head/sys/netinet

[Qing Li]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Neville-Neil [mailto:gnn at neville-neil.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 7:36 AM
> To: Qing Li
> Cc: src-committers at FreeBSD.org; svn-src-all at FreeBSD.org; 
> svn-src-head at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: svn commit: r192085 - head/sys/netinet
> 
> 
> On May 13, 2009, at 22:27 , Qing Li wrote:
> 
> > Author: qingli
> > Date: Thu May 14 05:27:09 2009
> > New Revision: 192085
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/192085
> >
> > Log:
> >  Ignore the INADDR_ANY address inserted/deleted by DHCP when 
> > installing a loopback route  to the interface address.
> >
> 


> 
> Can you give more detail as to the purpose of this change?  
> I'm a bit confused by it.  Does this fix any of the recent 
> problems seen with DHCP and PXE or is this unrelated?
> 

The DHCP client code adds a 0.0.0.0 address and then deletes
it once the server assign the node a real IP. It's easily
Observed by running dhclient followed by netstat.

I had to take care of this DHCP related bits before, e.g.,
not creating an ARP entry for it.

That's really it.  

Exactly which part is confusing you ? 

-- Qing