# espradio AP mode: DHCP server never answers DISCOVER Diagnosis of `espradio.log` (ESP32 running `espradio` AP + `dhcpv4.Server`). ## Symptom A client (`e4:c7:67:65:0e:46`) broadcasts DHCP DISCOVER every few seconds and is never answered. Log shows only `IN` DHCP frames, never an `OUT` OFFER: ``` 21.866 IN 342 Ethernet ... destination=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff ... | IPv4 ... source=0.0.0.0; destination=255.255.255.255 | UDP ... (Source port)=68; (Destination port)=67 | DHCPv4 op=1 ... 24.318 IN 342 ... (Transaction ID)=0x65be2ff3 ... 28.589 IN 342 ... (Transaction ID)=0x503e5f09 ... 36.971 IN 342 ... (Transaction ID)=0x32b12d21 ... 53.928 IN 342 ... (Transaction ID)=0x7922b680 ... ``` Retries with fresh XIDs and growing `secs` (0x0001 → 0x0020) = client never got an OFFER, i.e. it is standard client backoff, not a malformed reply. ## Cause: espradio side, not lneto The DISCOVER is destined to `255.255.255.255`. lneto's IPv4 layer drops packets not addressed to the stack unless broadcast acceptance is on ([internet/stack-ip4.go:109-119](internet/stack-ip4.go#L109-L119)): ```go if si4.ip4 != ([4]byte{}) && *dst != si4.ip4 { switch { case si4.acceptMulticast && ipv4.IsMulticast(*dst): case si4.acceptBroadcast && ipv4.IsBroadcast(*dst): default: si4.handlers.debug("ip:not-for-us") return lneto.ErrPacketDrop } } ``` `acceptBroadcast` comes only from `xnet.StackConfig.AcceptIPv4Broadcast` ([x/xnet/stack-async.go:250](x/xnet/stack-async.go#L250)). espradio's `NewStack` builds `xnet.StackConfig` (`espstack.go:59`) and **never sets that field**, so the flag is false in AP mode too. The DISCOVER dies at the IPv4 layer; `dhcpv4.Server.Demux` is never reached, so nothing is ever pending and `Encapsulate` emits nothing. The Ethernet layer is not the problem — it accepts broadcast destinations unconditionally ([internet/stack-ethernet.go:148](internet/stack-ethernet.go#L148)). Everything else in espradio's AP setup is correct: `RegisterUDP4(&stack.dhcpSrv, [4]byte{}, dhcpv4.DefaultClientPort)` registers local port 67 (`Server.LocalPort()`) with remote port 68 and no source-IP filter. ## lneto-side change None needed beyond tests: `StackConfig.AcceptIPv4Broadcast` already covers this and espradio knows it is starting an AP before it builds the stack. Regression tests in [x/xnet/xnet_dhcpserver_test.go](x/xnet/xnet_dhcpserver_test.go): - `TestDHCPServerAPBroadcastOffer` — broadcast DISCOVER through the full Ethernet/IPv4/UDP demux chain; asserts the egress OFFER is unicast to the client MAC (over the gateway MAC the Ethernet layer wrote), src=server address, dst=offered address, ports 67→68, and both checksums valid despite the server writing addresses inside the IPv4 layer's encapsulation. - `TestDHCPServerAPRequiresBroadcastAccept` — pins the failure in this log: with the flag off, `IngressEthernet` returns `ErrPacketDrop` and no reply is produced. Deliberately not retested here: DORA state machine, address allocation and the chaddr/ciaddr lookups — `dhcp/dhcpv4`'s own tests own those. ## Fix in espradio Plumb it through espradio's own `StackConfig` and set it in the `xnet.StackConfig` built by `NewStack` (`espstack.go:59`): ```go xcfg := xnet.StackConfig{ ... AcceptIPv4Broadcast: cfg.AcceptIPv4Broadcast, } ``` AP-ness is already known before that call: `netlink/ap.go` reads `params.EnableDHCPServer` to size `udpPorts` a few lines above `NewStack`, so it can pass `AcceptIPv4Broadcast: params.EnableDHCPServer` there. Same for `examples/ap/main-ap.go`, which registers the DHCP server itself.