[En-Nut-Discussion] eboot problem

[Bernd Walter]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 01:45:30PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
> tcpdump: listening on de0
> 13:22:20.849680 0.0.0.0.68 > 255.255.255.255.67:  xid:0x1020304 [|bootp]
> 13:22:20.865197 10.1.1.8.67 > 10.1.1.2.68:  xid:0x1020304 Y:10.1.1.2 S:10.1.1.14 sname "cicely6.ci"[|bootp] [tos 0x10] 

Here is the problem - the answer goes to the new IP, which should be
OK since it goes to the right MAC, but IpInput ignores non broadcast
packets that don't go to their own IP.
As the current IP ist 0.0.0.0 the packet is ignored.
Adding "always-broadcast on;" to dhcpd.conf helped to workaround.

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