[dhcwg] Maximum message size interpretation

Bud Millwood <budm@weird-solutions.com> Fri, 15 February 2002 10:43 UTC

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When a client gives my server the maximum message size it can receive, should 
I interpret that as the total IP packet size the client can receive or just 
the size of the DHCP portion?

From the description of this option, it appears that I should interpret the 
value as the size of the entire IP packet the client can receive.

In other words, should I subtract IP and UDP header sizes from a client's 
Maximum Message Size value?

- Bud

Bud Millwood
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