netdev - Re: unintended ipv4 broadcast policy change

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Message-ID: <20110623081614.213a432f@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net>
Date:	Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:16:14 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unintended ipv4 broadcast policy change

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:39:35 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> But debian definitely still has this bug.  On debian, as a result,
> every packet received gets parsed.

Are you saying the DHCP client ends up parsing every packet?
This doesn't appear to be true.

I checked and the dhclient spends its life waiting on select for DHCP port.
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