RFC1542, 3.2: "The 'secs' field of a BOOTREQUEST message SHOULD represent the elapsed time, in seconds, since the client sent its first BOOTREQUEST message. Note that this implies that the 'secs' field of the first BOOTREQUEST message SHOULD be set to zero."

Signed-off-by: Stefan Brüns stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de --- net/bootp.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bootp.c b/net/bootp.c index e6eba12..9700e95 100644 --- a/net/bootp.c +++ b/net/bootp.c @@ -709,7 +709,11 @@ void bootp_request(void) bp->bp_htype = HWT_ETHER; bp->bp_hlen = HWL_ETHER; bp->bp_hops = 0; - bp->bp_secs = htons(get_timer(0) / 1000); + /* + * according to RFC1542, should be 0 on first request, secs since + * first request otherwise + */ + bp->bp_secs = htons(get_timer(bootp_start) / 1000); zero_ip.s_addr = 0; net_write_ip(&bp->bp_ciaddr, zero_ip); net_write_ip(&bp->bp_yiaddr, zero_ip); @@ -903,7 +907,7 @@ static void dhcp_send_request_packet(struct bootp_hdr *bp_offer) bp->bp_htype = HWT_ETHER; bp->bp_hlen = HWL_ETHER; bp->bp_hops = 0; - bp->bp_secs = htons(get_timer(0) / 1000); + bp->bp_secs = htons(get_timer(bootp_start) / 1000); /* Do not set the client IP, your IP, or server IP yet, since it * hasn't been ACK'ed by the server yet */