Is there an archive of this list?

[David W. Hankins]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:32:00PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> I'm trying to track a bit of history, but there doesn't appear to be an
> archive of the list, despite what http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/dhcp-lists.php
> says.

Marc used to track dhcp-hackers, but it fell off their radar when they
had to remove a large number of very low volume groups due to storage
reasons.

We keep an internal archive (I think), but our archives aren't suitable
for http access...we've been meaning to produce our own archive pages
and feed these stored archives into them to seed them.  "Some day."

> Alternatively, if anyone can tell me if the patch referred to at
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=165088 (which was
> apparently also sent to this list) has been incorporated, that would be
> great.

Yes:

- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
  dhcrelay.  It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
  and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.

There were some minor changes tho.  The original patch:

 	if (packet -> hops != 255)
 		packet -> hops = packet -> hops + 1;
+	if (packet -> hops >= max_hop_count)
+		return;

What we commited and released in 3.0.1rc12:

-       if (packet -> hops != 255)
+       if (packet -> hops < max_hop_count)
                packet -> hops = packet -> hops + 1;
+       else
+               return;

Which is equivalent.


Note that this still represents a packet replicator if someone
can excite the circumstances.  Just a much smaller one.

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