Re: [Etherboot-developers] DHCP option 175

[Michael B. <mb...@fe...>]

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Ken Yap wrote:
> >How about this standard for the NIC tag?
> >	"PCI" or "ISA" (3 bytes)
> >	Vendor ID (2 bytes network order)
> >	Device ID (2 bytes network order)
> >Length 8 bytes, including tag.
> Also I'd prefer that this tag be encapsulated inside one of the standard
> tags for this sort of client info, perhaps even the
> vendor-class-identifier tag to avoid using 175.

It could be wrapped up in vendor-encapsulated-options.  I chose 175 in
order to fit in with the current scheme which, AFAICT, uses the site-local
DHCP options (128-254) instead of encapsulation.

Michael