[ECOS] Redboot DHCP

Gary Thomas gary@mlbassoc.com
Mon Nov 3 21:36:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 14:28, John Newlin wrote:
> In bootp.c there is a line like so:
> 
> static const unsigned char dhcpRequestOption[] = {52,1,3};
> 
> 
> Just curious if this is what the Author intended.  52 is the Option
> override command.  53 seems somewhat more sensible, being the DHCP
> Discover option.
> 
> I'm not familiar with Option override does, so I am probably wrong.
> 
> 
> Also, our DHCP server here seems to want more in the Options.  I have not
> narrowed it down to the smallest set yet, but the following options seem
> to make it happy:
> 
> 53 - Discover
> 61 - Client Id (MAC Address, should it need this?)
> 55 - Parameter List

Update to the latest version from CVS - this has been changed a lot
in the recent past.

-- 
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates


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