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Re: [dhcwg] "Options" field

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> Wed, 15 May 2002 20:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] "Options" field
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> Probably the size of a UDP packet (minus the size of the header... 200 or 
> so bytes).  However, clients can tell the server that they can only accept 
> messages up to size X (there's an option for it).

No offense, but why are you answering someone's question about what the RFC 
says when you haven't looked the answer up in the RFC?   From RFC2131:

    The 'options' field is now variable length. A DHCP client must be
    prepared to receive DHCP messages with an 'options' field of at least
    length 312 octets.  This requirement implies that a DHCP client must
    be prepared to receive a message of up to 576 octets, the minimum IP



Droms                       Standards Track                    [Page 10]

RFC 2131          Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol         March 1997


    datagram size an IP host must be prepared to accept [3].  DHCP


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