From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Warren Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:12:23 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] DHCP request fix for Windows Server 2003 In-Reply-To: <47E980EF.9070007@magtech.com.au> References: <47E9802D.8000205@magtech.com.au> <47E980EF.9070007@magtech.com.au> Message-ID: <47EF1327.8030803@qstreams.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Aras Vaichas wrote: > Aras Vaichas wrote: > >> This patch fixes a problem I had with a client who was getting DHCP >> request retries with our network device and their DHCP server. >> >> It turns out that their Windows Server 2003 DHCP server couldn't handle >> fast DHCP transactions and it just "forgets" some of them. I verified >> this with my own Windows Server 2003 install and a network analyser >> (Ethereal/Wireshark). It seems that a small, lean 200MHz embedded system >> is too fast for a Windows Server 2003 system running on a 2GHz+ machine. >> Go figure. >> >> Adding a small (50ms) delay fixes this problem nicely and it only adds a >> small amount of overhead in comparison to the DHCP request timeouts and >> retries. >> >> NOTE: This patch is ported from my old 1.1.3 U-Boot system. I have not >> retested it with 1.3.2 U-Boot against Windows Server 2003. The patch is >> very small and simple, so I don't think should be necessary. >> >> I can retest this functionality if you wish, but it will require me to >> reinstall Windows Server and set everything up again. >> >> >> > Signed-off-by: Aras Vaichas > > Applied to net tree. In the future, please post patch inline. thanks, Ben