mbim Bearer reports IP_METHOD_DHCP when namesservers are missing

[Andreas Fett]

Hi,

any news on this one?

On 03/12/15 17:54, Dan Williams wrote:
> For IPv6 MM should report "DHCP" if there is *any* information missing
> (DNS or Gateway) because that may have to be acquired via SLAAC or
> DHCPv6.  MM should also fill in any information it already has, even if
> it sets DHCP as the method, since this information may not be able to
> be retrieved from SLAAC or DHCPv6.  Also sometimes there is an IPv6LL
> address that should be assigned to the modem before performing
> SLAAC/DHCPv6 which needs to be reported in the IP config.
> 
> For IPv4 though, I think MM should only require an IP address to report
> STATIC; clients already have to handle missing gateway and DNS servers
> since some modems don't give those (or give wrong ones) so this
> wouldn't be any different.

I could provide a patch für v4 case in the mbim-bearer if that would be
sufficient for a start...

Andreas


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