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Re: [dhcwg] What sorts of services does DHCP configure?

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Tue, 15 October 2013 15:26 UTC

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On Oct 15, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Reinaldo Penno (repenno) <repenno@cisco.com> wrote:
> certain OSs allows applications to ask for certain DHCP options.
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363298%28v=vs.85%
> 29.aspx

Yup.   And in that case, we should see the option on the DHCP parameter request list.   It would be interesting to know what clients rely on this behavior.

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