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Joshua Oreman 5efc2fcb60 [dhcp] Keep multiple DHCP offers received, and use them intelligently
Instead of keeping only the best IP and PXE offers, store all of them,
and pick the best to use just before a request is sent. This allows
priority differentiation to work even when lower-priority offers
provide PXE options, and improves robustness at sites with broken PXE
servers intermingled with working ones: when a ProxyDHCP request times
out, instead of giving up, we try the next PXE offer we've received.
It also allows us to avoid breaking up combined IP+PXE offers, which
can be important with some firewall configurations. This behavior
matches that of most vendor PXE ROMs.

Store a reference to the DHCPOFFER packet in the offer structure, so
that when registering settings after a successful ACK we can register
the proxy PXE settings we originally received; this removes the need
for a nonstandard duplicate REQUEST/ACK to port 67 of proxy servers
like dnsmasq that provide PXE options in the OFFER.

Total cost: 450 bytes uncompressed.

Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
2010-01-21 18:36:26 -05:00
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dhcp.c [dhcp] Keep multiple DHCP offers received, and use them intelligently 2010-01-21 18:36:26 -05:00
dns.c [legal] Add a selection of FILE_LICENCE declarations 2009-05-18 08:33:25 +01:00
slam.c [legal] Add a selection of FILE_LICENCE declarations 2009-05-18 08:33:25 +01:00
tftp.c [tftp] Abort requests with error code 0 2010-01-18 17:24:38 -05:00