What is the use of magic cookie in dhcp options

[Allwyn Carvalho]

My guess is that he ran a CRC-8 on the individual bytes of "OREO" to 
produce the magic cookie...
Allwyn.

Ragnar Lonn wrote:

>Ralph Droms wrote:
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>>Bonus question: What does the magic cookie value 99.130.83.99 represent and
>>how is it encoded?  Philip told me he suggested "OREO" (in ASCII, I assume),
>>but Jon Postel changed it to the current value when the RFC was published
>>(likely due to trademark issues).
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>I was just about to ask where the cookie value came from :-)
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>So noone knows why Jon chose "99.130.83.99"? I can't see that it is 
>related to "OREO", which would be 79:82:69:79, but I'm not very good 
>at numerical analysis so I might be missing something.
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