Bjørn Mork <[email protected]> writes:
> Bjørn Mork <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> RFC3942 reserved the range 224 - 254 for site-specific options.
> ..
>> Unfortunately the udhcp code still hard codes vendor-specific
>> usage of options 249 and 252. This makes many site-specific use
>> cases impossible.
>
> Any hope of a comment/reject/friendly hug here?
>
> This is a real issue for me since I depend on a DHCP server using option
> 252 to signal some local state, coded as a low valued 16 bit big endian
> integer.  I.e two bytes where the first one always is 0 and the second
> one is important. Decoding option 252 as OPTION_STRING results in an
> empty string being sent to the udhcpc script, losing the original content.
>
> For no good reason AFAICS. The bogus mapping even bloats the code by a
> couple of unnecessary bytes.  Can we please just clean it up and become
> more standards compliant?

I take it "outsider" contributions are not welcome here?  Or am I just
too impatient again?


Bjørn
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