subenet-mask option in DHCPACK for DHCPINFORM

[David W. Hankins]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:01:03AM -0700, Jane Du (jadu) wrote:
> Is it implementation intent that DHCPACK in responding to DHCPINFORM
> always has subnet-mask option along with the options requested by the
> client? It seems to be the case even when the client doesn't request
> this option.  

No, this is an oversight.  We started sending the subnet-mask in
discover/offer/request/ack to match other server implementations (and
to be compatible with clients which are dependent on this behaviour).

That is also affects dhcpinform was an error.

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