On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Jay Foster<[email protected]> wrote:
> DHCP uses INADDR_BROADCAST (255.255.255.255) as the broadcast address. You
> probably need to set the interface broadcast address to match.  You may also
> need to add a route to allow broadcasts.  Look at the DHCP/BOOTP eCos code.
>  It does some of this too.
Good idea. I'll refer to the dhcp client test code...that works with
my system...

Thanks,
-mandeep

>
> Jay
>
> Mandeep Sandhu wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Sergei
>> Gavrikov<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Mandeep Sandhu wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm using the FreeBSD stack on my Linux Synthetic target to implement
>>>> a tiny DHCP server. I can receive DHCP REQUEST packets coming over the
>>>> tap interface, but am unable to send back the broadcast resp packet
>>>> (DHCP Offer).
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> Any hint's appreciated.
>>>
>>> Hi Mandeep,
>>>
>>> I call that recently Jay Foster share on the list a solution
>>> http://sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss/2009-06/msg00075.html
>>> Follow this thread. HIH.
>>
>> Thanks Sergei. This is _exactly_ my problem too.
>>
>> Though this patch didn't help much. Now my IP broadcast addr is not
>> converted to the subnet bcast addr of the interface...but my ip_output
>> function fails when trying to get an interface for 255.255.255.255
>>
>> Here's where it fails:
>>
>> packages/net/bsd_tcpip/v3_0/src/sys/netinet/ip_output.c
>>
>> <snip>
>> ...
>>    if (flags & IP_ROUTETOIF) {
>>        if ((ia = ifatoia(ifa_ifwithdstaddr(sintosa(dst)))) == 0 &&
>>            (ia = ifatoia(ifa_ifwithnet(sintosa(dst)))) == 0) { <<----
>> PROBLEM!
>>            ipstat.ips_noroute++;
>>            error = ENETUNREACH; <<-- shows up as 'Network is unreachable'
>>            goto bad;
>>        }
>>        ifp = ia->ia_ifp;
>>        ip->ip_ttl = 1;
>>        isbroadcast = in_broadcast(dst->sin_addr, ifp);
>>    }
>> ...
>> </snip>
>>
>> Any other clue? Or should I switch stack to LWIP? Any idea if this works
>> in
>> LWIP?
>>
>> Looking at the same function in lwip stack...I see it picks up the
>> default interface
>> if the route lookup does not find a suitable match.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -mandeep
>>
>>> Sergei
>>>
>>
>

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