Is there any convention on where the DHCP message type?
Ted Lemon
mellon at fugue.com
Tue May 9 16:12:51 UTC 2006
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 06:44, Ralph Blach wrote:
> It would be very nice if the one could assume the DHCP message type was
> always the first option after the Magice Cookie.
No, you must not assume that. DHCP client implementations that make
assumptions about alignment of options in the option buffer, or placement of
options in the option buffer, make for really great story telling ("remember
that client that was so broken because it...?") but not much else.
Parsing through the packet isn't very hard - there's a pretty good cheap
example of some code to do it in the relay agent options parsing code in
relay.c. Or, frankly, you could write it in about five minutes if you put
your mind to it. If space in your boot ROM is tight, well, sorry about
that. We fixed this in DHCPv6... :'}
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