7.38. dhcp

Bug Fixes

BZ#1130804

Previously, the DHCPv6 client was sometimes started to configure a network interface which was not fully loaded. Consequently, dhclient failed to run because the network interface did not have a link-local address yet, which the DHCPv6 client requires. This update adds a wait loop into dhclient-script, and dhclient no longer fails due to a missing link-local address.

BZ#1150587

When the dhcpd daemon was using a plain interface as well as an interface configured as a VLAN trunk, and the dhcpd daemon was configured to listen only on the plain interface, it detected traffic also from VLAN networks, regardless of the configuration. As a consequence, dhcpd was generating incorrect responses. With this update, the bug has been corrected, and in the described scenario, dhcpd now ignores tagged requests, and thus generates correct responses.

BZ#1151054

When running the DHCPv6 relay agent and the "lower" interface was specified ("-l") on the command line before the "upper" interface ("-u"), message relaying did not work. The underlying source code has been fixed, and DHCPv6 relay agent now relays messages properly.

BZ#1185075

When a large number of nodes with InfiniBand network cards booted at the same time, some nodes were assigned duplicate IP addresses. With this update, generation of the xid field in DHCP messages sent by the client has been fixed for the xid fields to be unique, and nodes are now assigned unique IP addresses as expected.

BZ#1187967

Previously, attempting to run the dhcrelay and dhcrelay6 services simultaneously prevented the latter service from starting. The dhcrelay6 init script has been fixed, and running both dhcrelay and dhcrelay6 services no longer causes problems.

Enhancement

BZ#1058674

With this update, the dhcpd daemon is able to handle dhcp option 97 - Client Machine Identifier (pxe-client-id), so it is now possible to statically allocate an IP address for a particular client based on its identifier, sent in option 97.