[ECOS] Re: Recent RedBoot/BOOTP change

[Jonathan Larmour]

Gary Thomas wrote:
> Jonathan,
> 
> The change you recently made to BOOTP in RedBoot 
> (redboot/current/src/net/bootp.c version 1.10) has broken
> BOOTP - at least when using the stock DHCP server from
> Red Hat (8.0 and newer).
> 
> I think we should revert this change, or find out why it was 
> made and what the differences are between different servers, etc.

Hmm... I verified that change against the RFCs: 
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2132.html section 9.6. Clearly it is correct 
(52 is option overload which is N/A for a client request and so should be 
ignored by a server) so perhaps there is something else going on or indeed 
servers out there are broken (although this seems unlikely). Assuming the 
option is required at all for some reason - I haven't looked at what's 
required for DHCP gatewaying.

Perhaps it is the response to it that changes in a way that is not 
expected by the current code. More investigation is required evidently.

Jifl
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