Re: Best way to retrieve DHCP vendor specific options?

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

The only time that the client is in a position to choose a server
based on what it offers is when it is in the SELECTING state, after
having sent out a DHCPDISCOVER message.  After it's got an address,
it's stuck with what it got unless it gives up the address and goes
back to the INIT-REBOOT state.

If it is important that a DHCP client receive vendor-specific options,
then it must request them in the DHCPDISCOVER broadcast, wait around
for some reasonable period of time collecting DHCPOFFERs, and take the
offer that most closely matches what it's looking for.  If it doesn't
get a DHCPOFFER with the appropriate vendor tags, it has a choice of
either going back to INIT-REBOOT and trying again, or settling for
what it got.

			       _MelloN_