Re: Translation of bootp vendor entries to dhcpd?

[Bernd Wiebelt <bernardo@mathematik.hu-berlin.de>]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Dirk von Suchodoletz wrote:

> option opt_code code 128 = string;

This is not a string! It's a 6 byte magic value.

> But nothing happens. The dhcpd starts without complaining but nothing
> happens. Any ideas?

It's not dhcpd. Etherboot won't support menus without the proper magic
value. And beware that the dhcp-reply is only by 364 (?) bytes long,
so the whole menu structure (including MD5 passwords) has to fit in
there. 

Bernd


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