[ adding relevant cc's ] On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Julien-externe BLACHE wrote:
> Hi, > > Attached is a second patch for ipconfig, which further improves (actually, > restores) ipconfig's behaviour on busy LANs with UDP noise. > > Commit 4efbcf90f60e27febe883ef052454d8cfded5c15 really is the root of all > evil, it badly broke ipconfig by doing a lot of changes all over the place > that were not warranted and badly tested. Indeed as mailinglist history show I had been sceptic to that monster patch, but several users had pushed for it, see: http://bugs.debian.org/511959 > After this commit, if a random UDP packet comes in before the expected > DHCP reply packet_recv() will exit with an error and the interface will be > sent into DEVST_ERROR instead of just ignoring this packet. On busy LANs, > ipconfig can go through this loop several times. > > JB. as mika is currently on vacation after Debconf. I will look into the issue and see if said patch resolves his testcase which is nicely layed out in http://bugs.debian.org/552554 thank you for the patch. -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100812180020.gb28...@stro.at
