[PATCH RFC] udhcpc: pad packets to work around broken routers

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Mon Oct 28 22:29:13 UTC 2013


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Johannes Stezenbach <js at sig21.net> wrote:
> Commit b8b72f02 removed all padding from DHCP packets
> to fix operation with buggy servers which can't handle
> maximum sized packets.  But it introduced a regression
> with buggy routers which drop DHCP packets smaller
> than 300 bytes (i.e. 342 byte ethernet packets).
> Add back some padding to work around.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js at sig21.net>

Applied, thanks!


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