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Re: Recent RedBoot/BOOTP change


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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