Re: [ECOS] DHCP server xid

[Martin Buck <martin dot buck at ascom dot ch>]

Robin Farine wrote:
> Last year, we observed the case where two nodes booting simultaneously
> were generating the same XID and then they both accepted the first
> server reply which resulted in two nodes with the same IP address. I
> think now that the DHCP client code didn't check the hardware address
> from the reply.

Well, instead of "didn't" it might be "doesn't". :-(
At least I couldn't find any comparison of Ethernet addresses when I
looked at dhcp_prot.c in the eCos CVS a few minutes ago.

Martin