1 files changed, 3 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/plugins-root/check_dhcp.c b/plugins-root/check_dhcp.c
index d8afb172..88b7ca10 100644
--- a/plugins-root/check_dhcp.c
+++ b/plugins-root/check_dhcp.c
@@ -463,10 +463,9 @@ int send_dhcp_discover(int sock){
         discover_packet.hlen=ETHERNET_HARDWARE_ADDRESS_LENGTH;
 
         /*
-         * transaction ID is supposed to be random.  We won't use the address so
-         * we don't care about high entropy here.  time(2) is good enough.
+         * transaction ID is supposed to be random.
          */
-        srand(time(NULL));
+        srand(time(NULL)^getpid());
         packet_xid=random();
         discover_packet.xid=htonl(packet_xid);
 
@@ -692,17 +691,11 @@ int receive_dhcp_packet(void *buffer, int buffer_size, int sock, int timeout, st
                 }
 
         else{
-
-                /* why do we need to peek first?  i don't know, its a hack.  without it, the source address of the first packet received was
-                   not being interpreted correctly.  sigh... */
                 bzero(&source_address,sizeof(source_address));
                 address_size=sizeof(source_address);
                 recv_result=recvfrom(sock,(char *)buffer,buffer_size,MSG_PEEK,(struct sockaddr *)&source_address,&address_size);
                 if(verbose)
-                        printf("recv_result_1: %d\n",recv_result);
-                recv_result=recvfrom(sock,(char *)buffer,buffer_size,0,(struct sockaddr *)&source_address,&address_size);
-                if(verbose)
-                        printf("recv_result_2: %d\n",recv_result);
+                        printf("recv_result: %d\n",recv_result);
 
                 if(recv_result==-1){
                         if(verbose){