[syslinux] [PATCH] Updated udp.c to use real client ip and subnetmask values if on local subnet

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Sat Jul 18 10:38:43 PDT 2015


On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Patrick Masotta <masottaus at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>
>  As noted in the reply to Matt Fleming's initial EFI networking
>  implementation, I think some systems go stupid on UseDefaultAddress
>  and AllowPromiscuous as true.  I just tested and saw no negative
>  results from killing the codelines setting AllowPromiscuous in
>  efi/udp.c on my machines.
>
>  --
>  -Gene
>  <<<
>
> This is good; BTW what was the rationale at the time for
> taking AllowPromiscuous=1 ??

That's the point of the aforementioned reply.  It seems unnecessary,
confusing and actually breaks some VM use.

-- 
-Gene


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