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62 lines
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ToDo: -*- text -*-
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Memory allocation locality:
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Currently mallocs memory in a very haphazard manner. As such, most of
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the program ends up core-resident all the time just to follow all the
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stupid pointers around. . . .
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Input parser:
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The reader implemented in readfile.c could use improvement. Some sort
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of "data-driven" parser should be used so the big switch statements
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would have only one case for each data type instead of one case for
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every recognized option symbol. Then adding a new tag would involve
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only adding a new element to the data table describing known symbols.
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Hopefully, this would shrink the code a bit too. -gwr
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SLIP Initialization via BOOTP:
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In the function handle_request(), both in bootpd and bootpgw,
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we might want to add code like the following just before testing
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the client IP address field for zero. (bp->bp_ciaddr == 0)
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(David suggests we leave this out for now. -gwr)
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#if 1 /* XXX - Experimental */
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/*
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* SLIP initialization support.
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*
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* If this packet came from a SLIP driver that does
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* automatic IP address initialization, then the socket
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* will have the IP address and the packet will
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* have zeros for both the IP and HW addresses.
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*
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* Thanks to David P. Maynard <dpm@depend.com>
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* for explaining how this works. -gwr
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*/
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if ((bp->bp_ciaddr.s_addr == 0) &&
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(bp->bp_htype == 0))
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{
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/* Pretend the client knows its address. It will soon. */
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bp->bp_ciaddr = recv_addr.sin_addr;
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if (debug)
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report(LOG_INFO, "fixed blank request from IP addr %s",
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inet_ntoa(recv_addr.sin_addr));
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}
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#endif
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DHCP Support:
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There is a set of patches from Jeanette Pauline Middelink
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<middelin@calvin.polyware.iaf.nl> to add DHCP support.
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Those patches will be integrated into the BOOTP release stream
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very soon, but if you can't wait, you can get them from:
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nimbus.anu.edu.au:/pub/tridge/samba/contributed/DHCP.patch
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