If necessary, restart the clients to deal with a changing mac address
at runtime. This will solve the problem of starting clients on bridges
before they have received their final MAC address.
The DHCP RFC does not require the DHCP server to send a subnet mask, so if it
is missing, let's try to use the default subnet masks based on address class.
In case the class the address belongs to does not have a default subnet mask,
we fail as before.
Also improve logging when handling invalid dhcp messages, and simply ignore them
rather than stop the whole dhcp client.
Accept any lease lifetime greater than one second. Server should not
hand out extremely short leases, but let's not be the ones to fail.
Do not fail when arming a timer in the past, but also only arm one such
timer.
Avoid rounding errors when computing the default timeouts, this may be
an issue if we are handed a very short lease.
Also, don't pass 'time_now' around, as that can be found in the event
object when needed.
Even though client identifiers SHOULD be treated as opaque objects by
DHCP servers, follow the recommendation of a hardware type field with
value 0x01 (ethernet) followed by the hardware address as described in
RFC 2132.
Init-Reboot is tried if a client IP address has been given when
the DHCP client is started. In Init-Reboot, start by sending a
broadcast DHCP Request including the supplied client IP address
but without the server identifier. After sending the request,
enter Reboot state.
If a DHCP Ack is received, proceed to Bound state as usual. If a
DHCP Nak is received or the first timeout triggers, start the
address acquisition over from DHCP Init state.
See RFC 2131, sections 4.3.2, 4.4, 4.4.1 and 4.4.2 for details.
safe_close() automatically becomes a NOP when a negative fd is passed,
and returns -1 unconditionally. This makes it easy to write lines like
this:
fd = safe_close(fd);
Which will close an fd if it is open, and reset the fd variable
correctly.
By making use of this new scheme we can drop a > 200 lines of code that
was required to test for non-negative fds or to reset the closed fd
variable afterwards.
The default slack caused there to be a delay before timers fired. Solve it
by setting timers that should trigger immediately to trigger far in the past.
This brings down the ideal-case dhcp lease acquisition time from about 500ms to
about 50ms (over a veth pair, so no network latency involved).
All the rest of the time (except for ~0.5ms) is spent in the bind() call in,
dhcp_network_bind_raw_socket(). I don't know if there is anything to be done
about that though...
