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authorDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2014-02-07 17:38:52 +0100
committerDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2014-02-07 17:38:52 +0100
commit744ee5db1c2d6c34c1988343728b2fc37a908f83 (patch)
tree643dba8df1dd7629d2e8021e60518d2972909576 /networking
parent3ba2df874ca27f075a0897210d8dce6c56646e60 (diff)
downloadbusybox-744ee5db1c2d6c34c1988343728b2fc37a908f83.tar.gz
udhcpc: in comments, explain the kind of raw socket we create
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'networking')
-rw-r--r--networking/udhcp/dhcpc.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/networking/udhcp/dhcpc.c b/networking/udhcp/dhcpc.c
index ee19f5578..bdb1e2b9b 100644
--- a/networking/udhcp/dhcpc.c
+++ b/networking/udhcp/dhcpc.c
@@ -979,6 +979,10 @@ static int udhcp_raw_socket(int ifindex)
log1("Opening raw socket on ifindex %d", ifindex); //log2?
fd = xsocket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_DGRAM, htons(ETH_P_IP));
+ /* ^^^^^
+ * SOCK_DGRAM: remove link-layer headers on input (SOCK_RAW keeps them)
+ * ETH_P_IP: want to receive only packets with IPv4 eth type
+ */
log1("Got raw socket fd"); //log2?
sock.sll_family = AF_PACKET;
@@ -1005,8 +1009,6 @@ static int udhcp_raw_socket(int ifindex)
*
* Copyright: 2006, 2007 Stefan Rompf <sux@loplof.de>.
* License: GPL v2.
- *
- * TODO: make conditional?
*/
static const struct sock_filter filter_instr[] = {
/* load 9th byte (protocol) */