dhcpcd-discuss

Hi Shahid.

Sorry for the late reply

On 20/10/2016 16:11, Shahid Mahmood wrote:
> Using dhdpcd-6.11.2
> 
> We have an instance of a dhcp server which is using broadcast ACK and OFFER.
> 
> I am seeing various messages like this:
> 
> "eth0: xid 0xYYYYYYYY..... is for hwaddr
> xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00"
> 
> Is this normal?

Yes, it's normal when you have debugging enabled.
When you don't, then you don't see that message.

> (PS: not confirmed but it is also reported that lease has been released
> randomly, which may be related to the bug you mentioned is fixed in 6.11.5)

Leases are only "released" by a command, or by dhcpcd exiting with the
release option set.
Did you mean something else like maybe lost or forgotten? I've not heard
of that before, but if it's the default route vanishing, then yes it's
fixed.

Roy