[solved] dhcpcd message: packet "is not ours" ???
 

When I run --

-- to start my networking, I get a message from dhcpcd saying :

What does this mean?

Thanks,
jrtayloriv

xid is an identifier chosen by the client to ensure that the request coming back is indeed the answer to it's request, not someone elses...

there's a good summary of the xid attribute here... http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/2131/20.htm

Thanks acid_kewpie -- I've always wondered how they checked for that on insecure networks...

--jrtayloriv