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Re: Re: Recent RedBoot/BOOTP change
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 12:50, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> Gary Thomas wrote:
> > Ignore everything I said
>
> Yep I just nuked the reply I was writing too :).
>
> > I think the change was just wrong.
>
> Or insufficient anyway - it changed one field and not the other.
>
> > If you look at it, the code now says "I'd like to request
> > address 0.0.0.0, please" - because it's using the DHCP_REQUEST
> > code. Actually, it should be using DHCP_DISCOVER which says
> > "please provide me with an address".
>
> Aha, yes of course. And it should be probably be called dhcpDiscoverOption
> which is one reason it seemed to be consistent at least.
>
I'm ahead of you - I had already renamed this. Now committed.
> Thanks for spotting!
Thanks for being there to bounce my ideas/thoughts off of :-)
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Gary Thomas <gary@chez-thomas.org>
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