Adds option to delay replying to DHCP packets by one or more seconds.
This provides a workaround for a PXE boot firmware implementation
that has a bug causing it to fail if it receives a (proxy) DHCP
reply instantly.
On Linux it looks up the exact receive time of the UDP packet with
the SIOCGSTAMP ioctl to prevent multiple delays if multiple packets
come in around the same time.
From f3d832b41f44c856003517c583fbd7af4dca722c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neil Jerram <Neil.Jerram@metaswitch.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 19:23:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix DHCPv4 reply via --bridge-interface alias interface
Sending a DHCPv4 reply through a --bridge-interface alias interface
was inadvertently broken by
commit 65c7212000
Author: Lung-Pin Chang <changlp@cs.nctu.edu.tw>
Date: Thu Mar 19 23:22:21 2015 +0000
dhcp: set outbound interface via cmsg in unicast reply
If multiple routes to the same network exist, Linux blindly picks
the first interface (route) based on destination address, which might not be
the one we're actually offering leases. Rather than relying on this,
always set the interface for outgoing unicast DHCP packets.
because in the aliasing case, iface_index is changed from the index of
the interface on which the packet was received, to be the interface
index of the 'bridge' interface (where the DHCP context is expected to
be defined, and so needs to be looked up).
For the cmsg code that the cited commit added, we need the original
iface_index; so this commit saves that off before the aliasing code
can change it, as rcvd_iface_index, and then uses rcvd_iface_index
instead of iface_index for the cmsg code.
If multiple routes to the same network exist, Linux blindly picks
the first interface (route) based on destination address, which might not be
the one we're actually offering leases. Rather than relying on this,
always set the interface for outgoing unicast DHCP packets.
The nasty code with static variable in retry_send() which
avoids looping forever needs to be called on success of the syscall,
to reset the static variable.
This is useful when using dnsmasq as DHCP server for a set of VMs
whose data is routed by the host instead of being bridged. In this
scenario:
- There is an unbounded set of TAP interfaces that have no IP address
at the host end.
- DHCP allocation is done from an IPv4 address range associated with a
dummy interface.
- We run dnsmasq with --interface dummy --interface tap*
--bind-dynamic, so that it listens on all the TAP interfaces, and
--bridge-interface=dummy,tap*, so that it will allocate IP addresses
via the TAP interfaces from the range associated with the dummy
interface.
TODO
hostname handling.
update DHCP6 configs from dns
parse domain=<domain>,<IPv6 range>
pretty-print counted string options.
DECLINE messages
lease-script fro DHCPv6
