Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 10:29:25 -0500 From: Clark Gaylord <cgaylord@vt.edu> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: proposed bootpd change Message-ID: <3FCB5E55.1090402@vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <20031201055447.A87811@xorpc.icir.org> References: <20031201055447.A87811@xorpc.icir.org>
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Luigi Rizzo wrote: > I can think of two ways to enable the user to configure the > client port, one is to add a command-line flag to bootpd, the > other one is to infer the client port number from the server > port number, which is what the attached patch does. > > Would people be comfortable with modifying bootpd in one > of these two ways ? I agree that this would be a desirable feature. Whether to allow a client port other than bootps_port+1 is an interesting question. I don't recall the spec prohibiting it, but one could imagine someone somewhere wanting to use 1067 and 10068. I don't know that we want to accomodate that ... seems a bit feeping to me ... but it is an interesting question. Maybe for that we say "if you are that insane, you have to edit /etc/services". Perhaps a case 'p' in "Read switches" block? Or maybe it is time to reuse 's'? How long has it been deprecated? --ckg
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