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
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