Subject: Re: kernel noise..
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/09/1997 23:50:10
> > Since this is quite normal behaviour for BOOTP/DHCP clients when they
> > first broadcast their discovery packets, I consider this logging (to the
> > console, per the default syslog.conf) as rather useless noise.
> 
> Actually, that's not quite right.   DHCP/BOOTP clients are not
> supposed to respond to ARP request broadcasts when their address is
> 0.0.0.0 - otherwise, you wind up having arp cache wars when multiple
> clients are trying to boot.   Not that this matters much, since we
> never try to transmit to 0.0.0.0, but nonetheless...

Ah yes, this is in the arp input code.. didn't look carefully enough.

-pk