[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#652739: isc-dhcp-client: dhclient does not work on network interfaces with checksum offloading

[Michal Suchanek]

Package: isc-dhcp-client
Version: 4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze3
Severity: normal

I looked through the debian paches and none seems to address this.

When booting Debian (stable) or Ubuntu on network interface with
checksum offloading (eg Xen vif) dhclient throws away all received dhcp
packets because they don't have a correct checksum.

See

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=dhcp.git;a=blob_plain;f=dhcp-4.2.2-xen-checksum.patch;hb=HEAD
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=63320
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1243



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (410, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental'), (111, 'oldstable'), (107, 'natty-updates'), (107, 'natty')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-rc3 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client depends on:
ii  debianutils         4.1                  Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  iproute             20100519-3           networking and traffic control too
ii  isc-dhcp-common     4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze3 common files used by all the isc-d
ii  libc6               2.13-21              Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

isc-dhcp-client recommends no packages.

Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  resolvconf                    <none>     (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information