[U-Boot-Users] PATCH for U-Boot 1.3.3 DHCP fails with netgearWGR614v6

[Ben Warren]

Hi Robin,

Robin Getz wrote:
> On Fri 11 Jul 2008 14:21, Ben Warren pondered:
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>> Robin Getz wrote:
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>> This seems goofy.  Have you tried your fix with other DHCP servers to 
>> verify that it works?  If so, which ones?  I unfortunately can't try 
>> anything right now but will play around a bit tonight.
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> Some other random netgears that I have in my home, plus whatever is attached 
> to our corp network - it works on them all (but on those it worked before as 
> well).
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> -Robin
While your fix works, wouldn't it be more correct to remove the call to 
BootpCopyNetParams() on line 927?  My understanding of the purpose of 
the DHCPDISCOVER state is for determining if there are reachable DHCP 
servers, not for actually acquiring an address.  I'm a bit wary because 
I don't know why that call was put there in the first place.  I guess in 
theory you could short-circuit the DHCPREQUEST state, but the code 
doesn't do that.

thanks,
Ben