Re: [PATCH] always log from ip
Roy Marples
Fri Apr 30 05:41:41 2010
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 12:10 +0200, Gerd v. Egidy wrote:
> today a customer had a problem with a stray dhcp server in his net. I tried to
> get the IP of the server by sending a requesting with dhcpcd, but the ip of
> the offender wasn't written out by dhcpcd as it is usually done.
>
> I found out that the server didn't set DHO_SERVERID.
>
> So I added some code to dhcpcd to print out the source ip of the dhcp udp
> packet if the DHO_SERVERID option isn't set. Patch attached, please consider
> applying.
Applied with changes for style.
Also, we could simply the code by putting from into addr if we do not
have a server id.
Thanks
Roy
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