Hi,
first things first: please cc me directly as I'm not subscribed to the list.
Problem: nfs rooted Linux 2.2.x (here 2.2.14) with BOOTP support. BOOTP server
is ISC dhcpd v2.0. dhcpd serves the boot path
('option root-path "/my/nfs/root/path";').
1. Kernel sends BOOTP request without DHCP MAX MESSAGE SIZE option, but a 128
byte option buffer.
2. dhcpd thus allocates by default a 64 bytes options buffer for the reply,
as this buffer is too small the boot path is not included in the reply
(the domain name and other options already fill the buffer).
3. Kernel doesn't find boot path in BOOTP reply, tries default path and fails
to boot.
4. Fix: Add the DHCP MAX MESSAGE SIZE option to the dhcp request. The size
in the fix below is 128 bytes linux vendor buffer plus the size dhcpd
subtracts from this size to calculate the vendor buffer size.
--- linux-2.2.14/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c Mon Aug 9 21:04:41 1999
+++ linux-2.2.14-boot/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c Mon May 8 17:43:26 2000
@@ -464,6 +464,12 @@
*e++ = 17; /* Boot path */
*e++ = 32;
e += 32;
+
+ *e++=57; /* AST: set extension buffer size for reply */
+ *e++=2;
+ *e++=1; /* 128+236+8+20+14, see dhcpd sources */
+ *e++=150; /* AST end */
+
*e = 255; /* End of the list */
}
5. Notes:
I do believe that this bug does affect only very few people. Still I'm using
BOOTP floppy kernels for fast installation of new systems and I want to keep
the whole client network configuration in the dhcpd config file.
Thus a fix of future kernels would be nice.
Andreas Steinmetz
D.O.M. Datenverarbeitung GmbH
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