Re: [Etherboot-developers] [COMMIT] Multicast & more.

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Michael Brown <mb...@fe...> writes:

> On 14 Jun 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > > FILE:
> > > > TFTP:
> > > > NFS:
> > > > X-SLAM: probably for the moment only
> > > > TFTM:
> > One thing we need to do is to advertise in a dhcp option which protocols
> > we support.  This way someone with an ISC dhcp v3 server or equivalent
> > can automatically take advantage of the other protocols.
> 
> Can I suggest putting this inside the etherboot-encapsulated-options
> option, in order to avoid further polluting the site-local dhcp option
> space?  This is easy to do: in main.c, where it currently says
> 
> etherboot_encap_len = sprintf(ip.bp.bp_vend + sizeof rfc1533_cookie + sizeof
> dhcprequest + 2,
> 
> 			      "%c%c%s", RFC1533_VENDOR_NIC_DEV_ID,
> strlen(nic.devid), nic.devid);
> 
> 
> just add further options inside the sprintf statement.

Sounds sane, and roughly what I was thinking.  I posted in large part
to avoid forgetting the issue, and to bring the issue to the attention
of others.

Eric