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From: Christian S. <sh...@un...> - 2000-11-08 10:34:49
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On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Ken Yap wrote: > [...] > 1. Change the call near line 880 to pass DHCP_OPT_LEN + MAX_BOOTP_EXTLEN > just like the line above, since the options extend into the extension > area anyway. The EXTENSION_PATH option should be taken out of the DHCP > options requested, so that Etherboot does not request it and have the > contents of the file overwrite the extension area. Technically > extension path (option 18) is still legal in DHCPDISCOVER requests. In > practice it doesn't seem to be useful to DHCP because the buffer can be > larger now. ISC dhcpd does not support this option directly, you would > have to request for option-18. The one small problem with this is that > you could not enable DHCP support and then use extension path with an > bootp server. It could be argued that people who use bootp+extension > path should be encouraged to migrate to DHCP. > > [...] > > If you (shredda) could try fix 1 and confirm this works, we have at > least confirmation of my theory. Ok. I will try it ASAP and inform you whether it works or not. Cu, Shredda -- Christian Schroeder sh...@up... |
