[PATCH v3 0/3] BOOTP/DHCPv4 enhancements

seanedmond
2023-11-04T01:03:20Z

In our datacenter application, a single DHCP server is servicing 36000+ clients.
Improvements are required to the DHCPv4 retransmission behavior to align with
RFC and ensure less pressure is exerted on the server:
- retransmission backoff interval maximum is configurable
(environment variable bootpretransmitperiodmax)
- initial retransmission backoff interval is configurable
(environment variable bootpretransmitperiodinit)
- transaction ID is kept the same for each BOOTP/DHCPv4 request
(not recreated on each retry)

For our application we'll use:
- bootpretransmitperiodmax=16000
- bootpretransmitperiodinit=2000

A new configuration BOOTP_RANDOM_XID has been added to enable a randomized
BOOTP/DHCPv4 transaction ID.

Add functionality for DHCPv4 sending/parsing option 209 (PXE config file).
Enabled with Kconfig BOOTP_PXE_DHCP_OPTION. Note, this patch was
submitted previously but this latest version has been enhanced to
avoid a possible double free().

changes in v3:
- add define for option 209 and rfc5071 reference
- Set RETRANSMIT_PERIOD_MAX_MS=60000
- Add randomization factor to retransmission timeout
- Add depends for BOOTP_RANDOM_XID

changes in v2:
- use env_get_ulong() to get environment variables

Sean Edmond (3):
net: Get pxe config file from dhcp option 209
net: bootp: BOOTP/DHCPv4 retransmission improvements
net: bootp: add config option BOOTP_RANDOM_XID

Sean Edmond (3):
net: Get pxe config file from dhcp option 209
net: bootp: BOOTP/DHCPv4 retransmission improvements
net: bootp: add config option BOOTP_RANDOM_XID

cmd/Kconfig | 11 +++++++
cmd/pxe.c | 10 ++++++
net/bootp.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
net/bootp.h | 2 ++
4 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

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