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Re: Translation of bootp vendor entries to dhcpd?




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.
> Hm, couldn't I translate it to a string?

You don't need to. You can specify a series of bytes in
dhcpd.conf. I don't have the docs here, but hopefully you do.

> Isn't there a similar solution to bootp extensions file? Or could I use
> the bootef created file some way?

Yes, in theory you can load the extension file created from the
bootptab by bootpef. Kind of messy to keep two configuration files
around, though.

Bernd



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