Dave Miner wrote:
> Ken Powell wrote:
>> Should Solaris support automatically configuring to a network
>> that works this way?
>>
> 
> I ran into this at a hotel about 3 years ago and amazingly haven't since
> despite the number of hotels I visit.  I could swear we filed a bug
> somewhere about it, but I can't find it now.  I'd put it in the "liberal
> in what you accept" bucket and hence we ought to make it work.

I remember that, too.  I don't remember it ever making it into a CR --
at least I can't find it externally.

The two places I can think of where this ought to be handled are in
configure_v4_lease(): we should be able to detect and ignore "obviously"
bogus netmasks, and we should check dsm_pil[] before attempting to use
CD_SUBNETMASK.

The latter would make it possible for you to set PARAM_IGNORE_LIST so
that the DHCP client would not use that option.  (It's not a fix, but
it'd be a useful work-around, just in case there's someone out there
with a DHCP server that gives out bogus netmasks that aren't "obvious.")

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <[email protected]>
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