Re: [ECOS] DHCP xid

[Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 09:57, Robin Farine wrote:
> Hugo,
> 
> Thank you for your work on this subject and the patch that resulted.
> 
> [ humble, red faced guy speaking softly ]
> 
> Ahem, forget this if it's already donethe case but, as Martin Buck
> emphasized in his e-mail, when the DHCP client receives a reply, it
> should first make sure that the fields 'htype', 'hlen' and 'chaddr'
> match its own ESA before accepting the reply since the XID doesn't
> suffice to exclude e.g. broadcasted replies destined to other clients.
> 

I agree.  I tested this and indeed the DHCP server (at least the Linux
one) broadcasts its results, even though they are only useful to a 
particular node.