Re: [Etherboot-developers] DHCP option 175

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

On 22 May 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > In my opinion, ASCII text is always preferred. For DHCPD maintainence
> > binary data is not a good idea ! And the byte space is definitive not
> > critical in this point (3 or 8 bytes ....)
> Given that we have a maximum of 1500 bytes in the DHCP packet, size
> matters a lot.

Is it so critical in the DHCP request packet though?  The DHCP request
packet is probably going to be tiny relative to the DHCP acknowledge
packet.

Michael Brown
http://www.fensystems.co.uk