[lwip-users] Re: [lwip] Initialization Sequence

[Adam Dunkels]

Hi Leon!

On Thursday 27 December 2001 09.53, you wrote:
> > I wouldn't recommend killing off all active connections just because the
> DHCP
> > client fails to get a lease, however! If your system has a short network
> > outage at the "right time", i.e., just when it is about to renew its
> address
> > it might timeout and think that it didn't get a lease. When the DHCP
> client
>
> If DHCP is implemented right, this is not an issue:

Ok, great! 

> > best. Option 2 will make you receive all packets; an IP address of
> all-zeroes
> > means IP_ADDR_ANY. The reason for this behaviour is to allow DHCP clients
> to
> > boot with a network interface that accepts all incoming packets including
> > DHCP offers.
>
> Adam, this is really great! I already thought this would be the largest
> amount of
> work to implement, but if it's already there, great!

Yes, I fixed it when I was toying with a DHCP client myself, and it worked 
for me so I guess it should work as expected.

/adam
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Adam Dunkels <address@hidden>
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