[ipxe-devel] Question about DHCP option length

Geert Stappers stappers at stappers.nl
Tue Feb 11 17:52:35 UTC 2020


On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 06:14:53PM +0100, Johannes Thoma wrote:
> Dear iPXE developers,
> 
> I just found that the length of a DHCP option cannot exceed 255 bytes.
> 
> Is there another possibility to pass parameters from a DHCP server to
> the iPXE client which are longer than that?
} Is there another possibility to pass parameters from a server to
} the iPXE client which are longer than fits in DHCP?
> Or changing the limit on DHCP options?

Using another protocol.
Known example  is  iPXE script.


Regards
Geert Stappers
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