From: Robin Getz Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:07:00 +0000 (-0500) Subject: ./net/net.c - make Microsoft dns servers happy with random_port() numbers X-Git-Tag: v2010.06-rc1~68^2~17 X-Git-Url: https://git.kernelconcepts.de/?p=karo-tx-uboot.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=9739946cc5b616c026d433bd07d193cf452ddea0 ./net/net.c - make Microsoft dns servers happy with random_port() numbers For some reason, (which I can't find any documentation on), if U-Boot gives a port number higher than 17500 to a Microsoft DNS server, the server will reply to port 17500, and U-Boot will ignore things (since that isn't the port it asked the DNS server to reply to). This fixes that by ensuring the random port number is less than 17500. Signed-off-by: Robin Getz Signed-off-by: Ben Warren --- diff --git a/net/net.c b/net/net.c index 7d2220d48d..cda731986b 100644 --- a/net/net.c +++ b/net/net.c @@ -1872,11 +1872,13 @@ void copy_filename (char *dst, char *src, int size) #if defined(CONFIG_CMD_NFS) || defined(CONFIG_CMD_SNTP) || defined(CONFIG_CMD_DNS) /* - * make port a little random, but use something trivial to compute + * make port a little random (1024-17407) + * This keeps the math somewhat trivial to compute, and seems to work with + * all supported protocols/clients/servers */ unsigned int random_port(void) { - return 1024 + (get_timer(0) % 0x8000);; + return 1024 + (get_timer(0) % 0x4000); } #endif