On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 01:49:22PM -0800, seanedm...@linux.microsoft.com wrote:

> From: Sean Edmond <seanedm...@microsoft.com>
> 
> In our datacenter application, a single DHCP server is servicing 36000+ 
> clients.
> Improvements are required to the DHCPv4 retransmission behavior to align with
> RFC and ensure less pressure is exerted on the server:
> - retransmission backoff interval maximum is configurable 
>   (environment variable bootpretransmitperiodmax)
> - initial retransmission backoff interval is configurable 
>   (environment variable bootpretransmitperiodinit)
> - transaction ID is kept the same for each BOOTP/DHCPv4 request 
>   (not recreated on each retry)
> 
> For our application we'll use:
> - bootpretransmitperiodmax=16000
> - bootpretransmitperiodinit=2000
> 
> A new configuration BOOTP_RANDOM_XID has been added to enable a randomized
> BOOTP/DHCPv4 transaction ID.
> 
> Enhance DHCPv4 sending/parsing option 209 (PXE config file).  A previous
> patch was accepted.  A new patch fixes a possible double free() and
> addresses latest review comments.

The changes from revision to revision should be below the "---" in a
commit and not the commit message itself. Please reword things for v5.
Thanks.

-- 
Tom

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