Re: ip_chk_addr() and multi-interface machines during bootp

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed May 10 2000 - 07:37:47 EST


> I have two ethernet devices and when one of them is trying to obtain a
> DHCP lease, the other device is inoperable until the lease has been
> obtained. This boiled down to one ethernet not working when the other was
> set to 0.0.0.0. After doing some packet dumps and poking around, i

That is a 2.0 'feature'. It causes the problems you found in 2.0 and is
abolished in 2.2 and higher.

Alan

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