[ipxe-devel] [PATCH 1/1] dhcp: correct user class data

Michael Brown mcb30 at ipxe.org
Tue Aug 22 08:00:51 UTC 2017


On 21/08/17 02:15, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> The user class option for DHCP is defined in RFC 3004.
> 
> The third byte of the user class data must be the length
> of the first user class value.

This is a (now) deliberate bug to maintain backwards compatibility:

   http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=7530&pid=11050#pid11050

I've updated http://ipxe.org/cfg/user-class to explicitly state that 
this is deliberate.

Thanks,

Michael



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