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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: unintended ipv4 broadcast policy change
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:16:14 -0700
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On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:39:35 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> But debian definitely still has this bug.  On debian, as a result,
> every packet received gets parsed.

Are you saying the DHCP client ends up parsing every packet?
This doesn't appear to be true.

I checked and the dhclient spends its life waiting on select for DHCP port.