[Dnsmasq-discuss] [PATCH] Delay DHCP replies for Raspberry Pi clients

[Kurt H Maier]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 02:48:48PM +0200, Floris Bos wrote:
> The PXE boot firmware implementation of the Raspberry Pi 3
> has a bug causing it to fail if it receives replies
> instantly.
>
> As a workaround ensure there is a minimum delay of one
> second if the client is a Pi.
>
> 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,
> or if there already was a delay caused by a ping check.
       
       
Why not have a configurable dhcp-delay setting instead of putting
device-specific quirks into the source code of dnsmasq forever?
       
khm