Hi Forest,
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:05:07AM -0400, Forest Bond wrote:
> > The additional issue is that it seems that we are trying to release the old
> > lease and then acquire a new one but the release isn't actually working.
> > From
> > the logs (with CONNMAN_DHCP_DEBUG=1) I see that a DHCP release request is
> > being
> > sent ("DHCP: sending DHCP release request"), and I do see "eth0 ip release"
> > debug messages, too, so I'm not sure what is going wrong.
>
> This issue happens because we do the DHCP release and then immediately free
> the
> DHCP client without waiting for the callback,
Which callback ? There is no callback for a DHCP_RELEASE packet because the
DHCP server will not answer to it.
> so the address is never removed
> from the interface. Thierry, your patch addresses this by always removing the
> address, which makes some sense because we know that we are not going to
> remove
> it otherwise (since we free the DHCP client). But I am also unsure about it
> being the best fix. It does seem to be a reasonable work-around.
It is, but I think it should be handled from the dhcp ConnMan layer.
Cheers,
Samuel.
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