[PATCH v8 0/3] BOOTP/DHCPv4 enhancements

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sat May 24 00:51:43 CEST 2025


On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 04:26:11PM -0600, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, 08 May 2024 19:39:00 -0700, Sean Edmond wrote:
> 
> > In our datacenter application, a single DHCP server is servicing 36000+ clients.
> > Improvements are required to the DHCPv4 retransmission behavior to align with
> > RFC and ensure less pressure is exerted on the server:
> > - retransmission backoff interval maximum is configurable
> >   (environment variable bootpretransmitperiodmax)
> > - initial retransmission backoff interval is configurable
> >   (environment variable bootpretransmitperiodinit)
> > - transaction ID is kept the same for each BOOTP/DHCPv4 request
> >   (not recreated on each retry)
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> Applied to u-boot/next, thanks!
> 
> [1/3] net: Enhancements for dhcp option 209
>       commit: c867045eef153b0beab69fbc74059fcfc4ad9472
> [2/3] net: bootp: BOOTP/DHCPv4 retransmission improvements
>       commit: e6bca3305bbc333cc71e5bf1ee483bbacfa84736
> [3/3] net: bootp: add config option BOOTP_RANDOM_XID
>       commit: 2111bd7e93a3044f0590c942a41f2667d15d923d

And sorry for the delay here. Can you please follow up with a patch to 
doc/usage/environment.rst for the new environment variables? Thanks.

-- 
Tom
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