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- Options in responses:
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- RFC951 says:
- The 'vend' field can be filled in by the client with
- vendor-specific strings or structures. For example the machine
- hardware type or serial number may be placed here. However the
- operation of the BOOTP server should not DEPEND on this
- information existing.
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- Therefore:
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- The bootpd should honor any vendor data structure set up by the client
- before trying to stuff in what it thinks the client wants. This part
- is done, but we need a way to tell the bootp server which options to
- append to the options area when the client provides no template.
- Perhaps the server should first fill in all the options specifically
- asked for by the client (in its template), and then append all other
- option values known by the server as option space permits.
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- Response policy:
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- Version 2.2 does not respond to a bootp client if it does not see
- a file name corresponding to the :bf=" record. This can lead to
- some confusion if one forgets to install the boot file. It might
- be less confusing if bootp just responded whenever it has a boot
- record for that client, and let the client report failure reading
- the boot file when TFTP fails. This is how bootpd-1.2 did it.
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