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Subject: Re: [9fans] dhcpd and other CPU server fun.
From: nigel@9fs.org
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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 07:34:18 +0100
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> 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/