dhcpcd-discuss

Re: dhcpcd gains authenticated messaging

Roy Marples

Sat Jan 25 02:25:39 2014

On 25/01/2014 1:47, Roy Marples wrote:
I've been testing it against WIDE dhcp6s and sometimes dhcp6s fails to
authenticate the message dhcpcd sends. Unsure why as dhcpcd has yet to
fail a message dhcp6s sends.

Of course this was a simple bug in dhcpcd.
Basically we needed to re-apply authentication just before sending the message so that that MAC includes the freshly updated elapsed time ....
Fixed!

Roy

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