http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10682
amaguire <alan.maguire at sun.com> changed:
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--- Comment #1 from amaguire <alan.maguire at sun.com> 2009-08-17 16:00:48 UTC
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(In reply to comment #0)
> Created an attachment (id=2428) [details]
> nwamd log
>
> Recently we ran into an issue while testing, where we were getting an IP
> address from the DHCP server that someone else had statically assigned to
> their
> machine.
>
> This cause the i/f to change state constantly due to the duplicated address
> causing DHCP to drop it and look for another .
>
> nwamd needs to detect this situation and handle it in a way that informs the
> user of the problem so that they can reasonably seek admin action to resolve
> it.
>
> To me this would require that we communicate the duplicate address situation,
> with information about the address that's causing it.
it'd probably make sense for us to look out for IFF_DUPLICATE in the interface
flags, and if found in handling the interface state event in
nwamd_ncu_handle_if_state_event(), move the IP NCU into "maintenance, duplicate
address detected".
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