From: Sean Edmond seanedmond@microsoft.com
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().
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 | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 3 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)