udhcpc: add/edit comments, no code changes
authorDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:24:23 +0000 (04:24 +0200)
committerDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:24:23 +0000 (04:24 +0200)
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
networking/udhcp/dhcpc.c

index 8b6019bc9c6e990fe383e5a0dde57dec4b174075..fcc447949246e25863d3508018c8df5c77dc2a94 100644 (file)
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ static smallint listen_mode;
 #define REQUESTING      1
 /* select/renew was sent, DHCPACK reply received */
 #define BOUND           2
-/* half of lease passed, want renew it by sending unicast renew requests */
+/* half of lease passed, want to renew it by sending unicast renew requests */
 #define RENEWING        3
 /* renew requests were not answered, lease is almost over, send broadcast renew */
 #define REBINDING       4
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ int udhcpc_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
                                state = INIT_SELECTING;
                                goto leasefail;
                        case BOUND:
-                               /* Half of the lease passed, time to enter renewing state */
+                               /* 1/2 lease passed, enter renewing state */
                                state = RENEWING;
                                change_listen_mode(LISTEN_KERNEL);
                                log1("Entering renew state");
@@ -433,7 +433,15 @@ int udhcpc_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
                        case_RENEW_REQUESTED:
                        case RENEWING:
                                if (timeout > 60) {
-                                       /* send an unicast renew request packet */
+                                       /* send an unicast renew request */
+                       /* Sometimes observed to fail (EADDRNOTAVAIL) to bind
+                        * a new UDP socket for sending inside send_renew.
+                        * I hazard to guess existing listening socket
+                        * is somehow conflicting with it, but why is it
+                        * not deterministic then?! Strange.
+                        * Anyway, it does recover by eventually failing throigh
+                        * into INIT_SELECTING state.
+                        */
                                        send_renew(xid, server_addr, requested_ip);
                                        timeout >>= 1;
                                        continue;
@@ -446,7 +454,7 @@ int udhcpc_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
                                /* Lease is *really* about to run out,
                                 * try to find DHCP server using broadcast */
                                if (timeout > 0) {
-                                       /* send a broadcast renew request packet */
+                                       /* send a broadcast renew request */
                                        send_renew(xid, 0 /*INADDR_ANY*/, requested_ip);
                                        timeout >>= 1;
                                        continue;
@@ -477,7 +485,7 @@ int udhcpc_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
                                goto case_RENEW_REQUESTED;
                        /* Start things over */
                        packet_num = 0;
-                       /* Kill any timeouts because the user wants this to hurry along */
+                       /* Kill any timeouts, user wants this to hurry along */
                        timeout = 0;
                        continue;
                case SIGUSR2: