[lwip-devel] [bug #27049] DHCP IP address assignment with multiple lwIP devices fails

[Bill Auerbach]

Follow-up Comment #19, bug #27049 (project lwip):

Yes, it is slow.  I meant to say that the 5 device capture was a test - its
the original DHCP with accepting responses to XID and XID-1.  This way the
behavior is as-if the ID is the same, but I could see which packets the DHCP
server was replying to.

You're right, it's slow.  Each device makes it even slow, as if it has a
queue and processes them in order a little at a time.

I have also been corrected on something.  We have a 24-port switch and the
router running DHCP is the cable modem.  This helps explain the slowness I
think.

IMO, retries indicate a problem.  The retries should be eliminated if they
reasonably can be.  The initial timeouts seem to have been chosen because they
were reasonable when the code was developed.  I have a case that shows they
should be longer.  If it can take an off-the-shelf router to 4-5 seconds to
reply, then a 3 second timeout is going to be too short.

I guess I'm done arguing for longer timeouts.  No one has countered why it's
a bad idea or what could possible break or be effected by doing so.

I see no harm in repeating the IDs being used as suggested, but IMO it's only
helping the problem, not solving the problem.

I can test 5 devices coming up on our slow router and am happy to test
anything want to see.

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