[systemd-devel] [PATCH 00/11] Finalize initial DHCP support

[Tom Gundersen]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Patrik Flykt
<patrik.flykt at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> The first seven patches fix a few issues with the current code.
>
> Patch 09 adds DHCP lease renewing support when timer T1 triggers. Using
> the UDP socket sending implementation in patch 08, the DHCP lease
> renewal is unicasted to the DHCP server. This means that systemd-network
> should have applied the acquired IP address and default route to the
> proper interface before timer T1 triggers.
>
> Common code is factored out in patch 10, which makes patch 11 containing
> the broadcasting of DHCP Requests at timer T2 trigger quite small.
>
> At this point in time support for fetching DNS, NTP, etc options from
> the DHCP message(s) is still missing, sorry for that. Also Init-Reboot
> state support is missing; adding that functionality can speed up the
> address acquisition if the host comes back to a known network where
> it still has an unexpired lease.

Hi Patrik,

I applied these patches, with the minor suggestions from Lennart and Zbigniew.

Cheers,

Tom