[PATCH] Work around dhclient brokenness (v2)

2008-08-19 Thread Anthony Liguori
With the latest GSO/csum offload patches, any guest using an unpatched version of dhclient (any Ubuntu guest, for instance), will no longer be able to get a DHCP address. dhclient is actually at fault here. It uses AF_PACKET to receive DHCP responses but does not check auxdata to see if the

Re: [PATCH] Work around dhclient brokenness (v2)

2008-08-19 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: With the latest GSO/csum offload patches, any guest using an unpatched version of dhclient (any Ubuntu guest, for instance), will no longer be able to get a DHCP address. dhclient is actually at fault here. It uses AF_PACKET to receive DHCP responses but does not check