dhcpd problem on virtual machines

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

--On Thursday, April 15, 2010 02:04:40 PM +0100 Alex Zeffertt 
<alex.zeffertt at eu.citrix.com> wrote:

> There are several possible solutions to this, and I'm keen to find out
> which of these - if any - seems the best to you:
>
>   i)   Always use AF_PACKET in dhclient
>   ii)  Use AF_INET in dhcpd for receiving packets instead of AF_PACKET (*)
>   iii) Don't verify the checksum in dhcpd if the hardware supports
> checksum offload

There's always:

iv) fix the virtualization layer so that it doesn't pass legitimate UDP 
traffic with incorrect but nonzero checksums.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+ at cmu.edu>
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA