[Etherboot-developers] Re: [Etherboot-users] etherboot ignores vendor tags

[Christian S. <sh...@un...>]

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

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