contained in the DHCP offer, and write it out to the lease file
as an unquoted value of the "next-server" keyword. The value is ignored
when the lease is read back by dhclient, however other applications
are free to parse it.
The intent behind this change is to allow easier interoperability
with automated installation systems e.g. Cobbler, Foreman, Razor;
FreeBSD installation kernels can automatically probe the network
to discover deployment servers. There are no plans to MFC this
change unless a backport is specifically requested.
The syntax of the "next-server <ip>" lease keyword is intended to be
identical to that used by the ISC DHCPD server in its configuration files.
The required defines are already present in dhclient but were unused before
this change. (Note: This is NOT the same as Option 66, tftp-server-name).
It has been exercised in a university protocol testbed environment, with
Cobbler and an mfsBSD image containing pc-sysinstall (driven by Cobbler
Cheetah templates). The SYSLINUX memdisk driver is used to boot mfsBSD.
Currently this approach requires that a dedicated system profile has
been created for the node where FreeBSD is to be deployed. If this
is not present, the pc-sysinstall wrapper will be unable to obtain
a node configuration. There is code in progress to allow mfsBSD images
to obtain the required hints from the memdisk environment by parsing
the MBFT ACPI chunk. This is non-standard as it is not linked into
the platform's ACPI RSDT.
Reviewed by: des
First, don't exit when the link goes down on an interface. Instead,
teach dhclient to track changes in link state and to enter the reboot
state when the link on an interface goes up causing dhclient to attempt
to renew its existing lease.
Second, remove the change I added to clear the old lease when dhclient
exits due to an error (such as ifconfig down). If an interface is
using autoconfiguration it should keep its autoconfiguration as much as
possible. If the next time it needs a configuration it is able to reuse
the previous autoconfiguration, then leaving the settings intact allows
existing connections to survive temporary outages, etc.
PR: bin/166656
MFC after: 1 month
packets instead of allowing the protocol stack to pick a random source port.
This fixes the behaviour where dhclient would never transition from RENEWING
to BOUND without going through REBINDING in networks which are paranoid about
DHCP spoofing, such as most mainstream cable-broadband ISP networks.
Reviewed by: brooks
Obtained from: OpenBSD (partly - I'm not convinced their solution can work)
MFC after: 1 week (pending re approval)
