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From: Michael Brown <mcb30-VUaoxwjD3yI@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [IPXE PATCH] [dhcp] Use random transaction ID to
	associate messages
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:38:09 +0100
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On Sunday 18 Sep 2011 02:21:04 Amos Kong wrote:
> Users may boot up a QEMU guest without default mac address, it's easy to
> repeat, it always to be failed to get IP with PXE boot.
> RFC suggests us to use random xid, it's necessary. This patch generates
> random id when start dhcp, and record it to netdev struct.

I've applied a modified version of this patch, which preserves the separation 
of abstractions between "net device" and "DHCP client":

  http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/12767d2

Thanks!

Michael