DHCP paket size udhcp 0.9.9-pre

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 06:54:46PM -0600, Jim Wright wrote:
>On May 20, 2006, at 5:57 AM, Der Turl wrote:
>
>> please take a look at this thread
>>
>> http://forum.bsr-clan.de/ftopic8253.html ( in english)
>>
>> we need a smaller paketsize for udhcpd, it sends 590 bytes f?r DHCP  
>> discover
>> and a DHCP Server / DHCP relay drops all pakets bigger than 576 bytes.
>>
>> still figured out that the problem is located at "PADDING" there is  
>> a lot of
>> unused stuff inside with blows up paket size unnecessarily.
>
>Hey, I'm new to Busybox, and am running OpenWRT, and have run into  
>this issue, my ISP is dropping the oversized packets from udhcp.   
>According to the above thread this issue is resolved in DD-WRT now,  
>but my non-expert snooping doesn't show that this fix has made its  
>way into busybox yet.  Any updates?

I don't recall to have seen a patch and an explanation on the busybox
list concerning this issue.

Also, AFAICT, you're better off to use the version of udhcpd that comes
with busybox as opposed to the standalone project since the latter is
basically not maintained, currently, while the version in busybox is.

The mail you cite above sounds like it's using the standalone version
and not the busybox version. Please clarify.

Thanks,
Bernhard