Package: klibc-utils
Version: 1.5.12-2
Severity: important
Hi,
ipconfig truncates DHCP root-path options (à la
[<server-ip>:]<root-dir>[,<nfs-options>])
after 40 bytes. The reason seems to be this #define:
usr/kinit/ipconfig/netdev.h:7:#define BPLEN 40
This is definitely way too short, especially if you take into account that
dotted-decimal IP addresses are up to 15 bytes long and that NFS mount options
may also grow quite long.
AFAICS ISC dhcpd allows more than 1000 bytes for options like this with data
type 'text'
and even RFC951 defines a maximum of 128 for the BOOTP file field which is the
predecessor of DHCP root-path IIRC.
So this should be raised at least to 128 bytes - but even more would be better.
Kind regards,
Christopher
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