Yes, that does help it all make sense. Thanks to all.
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Ted Unangst <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 22:16, Chris Smith wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Chris Smith <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Dec 10 16:19:46 firewall dhcpd[29710]: Many bogus options seen in offers. >> >> In particular the above line: "Many bogus options seen in offers." >> Doesn't the server make the "offer"? If so, why would the OpenBSD >> dhcpd server create bogus options? Or am I misreading the intent of >> the log message? > > The option parsing code was at one time shared between dhclient and > dhcpd. (ironically, our dhclient no longer contains that message.) > > It's worded strangely for a server warning message, but client > requests are allowed to specify options to the server. Just replace > the word offers with requests and it all makes sense.
