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

Chris Novakovic chris at chrisn.me.uk
Wed Mar 29 18:43:00 BST 2017


On 29/03/2017 18:13, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> 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.
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>        
> Why not have a configurable dhcp-delay setting instead of putting
> device-specific quirks into the source code of dnsmasq forever?

+1 for a dhcp-delay setting, ideally per-MAC: the Ethernet adapters on
older RPi models (as well as the built-in wifi adapter on the RPi 3)
also use the b8:27:eb OUI, and this artificial delay oughtn't be applied
to them.



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