Free Options

[David W. Hankins]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:40:50PM -0500, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> For vendor-specific options; that is, something where you will be shipping 
> a hardware or software product (commercially or otherwise) which will 
> transmit and/or respond to an option you define, your choices are to use 
> the vendor-options option (option code 43), either with or without the 
> encapsulated vendor options format described in RFC2132 section 8.4, or to 
> obtain a publically-assigned option code by standardizing your option 
> through the Internet standards process.

There's also the Vendor-Identified Vendor Sub-Options (vivso) which is
supported in either 3.1.0 or 4.0.0.  It differs from the Vendor
Encapsulated Option in that multiple vendors can be configured,
differentiated by enterprise-ID.

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