[systemd-devel] [RFT] DHCPv4 support in networkd

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Thu Jan 2 07:29:26 PST 2014


Hei Reindl,

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>
> Am 02.01.2014 13:55, schrieb Tom Gundersen:
>> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Holger Schurig <holgerschurig at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> AFAIK Mac OSX does a trick here
>>
>> Yeah, and we should do the same: <http://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc4436>
>
> because this explains why i sometimes see firewall logs in
> the company network where all severs are blocking private
> ranges as spoofed address i would be thankful not starting
> the same odd behavior with linux clients
>
> this is also really funny if it leads calling your ISP
> names because it appears that the managed router let public
> IP's connect to the fileserver in a non-public range until
> you find out that was the public home IP of a employer
>
> please don't do that - thank you!

I'm not sure I fully understand what you are referring to. Did you
read the RFC? Could you explain a bit more precisely what setups
causes problems under that RFC?

Cheers,

Tom


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