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From: Michael Brown <mcb30-VUaoxwjD3yI@public.gmane.org>
To: Amos Kong <akong-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	kvm-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Cc: ipxe-devel-VUaoxwjD3yI@public.gmane.org,
	ehabkost-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [IPXE PATCH] [dhcp] Use random transaction ID to associate messages
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:38:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201109191738.09814.mcb30@ipxe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110918012104.2823.64476.stgit@t>

On Sunday 18 Sep 2011 02:21:04 Amos Kong wrote:
> Users may boot up a QEMU guest without default mac address, it's easy to
> repeat, it always to be failed to get IP with PXE boot.
> RFC suggests us to use random xid, it's necessary. This patch generates
> random id when start dhcp, and record it to netdev struct.

I've applied a modified version of this patch, which preserves the separation 
of abstractions between "net device" and "DHCP client":

  http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/12767d2

Thanks!

Michael

      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-19 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-18  1:21 [IPXE PATCH] [dhcp] Use random transaction ID to associate messages Amos Kong
2011-09-19 16:38 ` Michael Brown [this message]

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