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From: nigel@9fs.org
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] dhcpd and other CPU server fun.
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 07:34:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c6ed00697e5ed20a4dff5da2d181ac92@9fs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304210003180.15159-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov>

> Now I'm curious. There is no entry in the standard DHCP packet for custom
> entries like auth and fs, right? I've read the DHCP RFCs and it seems not
> flexible enough for arbitrary named parameters, but maybe I misread it.
>
There is indeed a vendor extensions section in bootp (which dhcp is an
extension of) which Plan 9 uses for this purpose. Right click on this:

/sys/src/cmd/ip/dhcpd/dhcpd.c:/add plan9 specific options/



  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-21  6:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-21  6:14 ron minnich
2003-04-21  6:34 ` nigel [this message]
2003-04-21 12:09 ` David Presotto
2003-04-21 16:02   ` ron minnich
2003-04-21 14:29 ` Russ Cox

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