dhclient: renewal failure due to invalid route selection

[Ben Greear]

On 12/30/2014 10:09 AM, Guillaume Nault wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here's a problem that has already been reported a few times on
> dhcp-users[0]. The problem is that dhclient sends its unicast packets
> using the fallback interface. Since the socket used by the fallback
> interface isn't bound to any network device, unicast packets are sent
> following the local routing tables. The output interface can then be
> different from the device to be configured, which prevents dhclient to
> complete its renewal phase (thus requiring a new discovery after the
> first lease expires).

I've done some similar work in this area in case someone is
interested in looking at some other patches....

https://github.com/greearb/dhcp-ct/commits/master

Thanks,
Ben

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