On 2013/01/03 16:00, MERIGHI Marcus wrote:
> [email protected] (Jason McIntyre), 2013.01.02 (Wed) 18:39 (CET):
> > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 07:24:53PM +0100, MERIGHI Marcus wrote:
> > > playing with option-252 I found it already has a name. Found that as
> > > well: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=126573542214773
> > > 
> > > Index: dhcp-options.5
> > > ===================================================================
> > 
> > fixed now by krw.
> > jmc
> 
> I find it desireable to have the option numbers mentioned in
> dhcp-options(5). Rationale:
> 
> - the names assigned are arbitrary, the numbers are RFC'd. 
> - searching the interwebs often returns the numbers and an arbitrary
>   name that doesn't necessarily help in finding the name used by
>   OpenBSDs dhcpd(8). 
> - having to look up number-to-name in usr.sbin/dhcpd/tables.c is not
>   intended, I suppose.
> 
> That is going to be a lot of work, therefore asking in advance: 
> any interest in such a diff?

Yes.

> Additionally, as something that I cannot code myself, I would like to
> be allowed to specify ``option-35 3600;'' even if there's a name
> assigned to that number.

This is more difficult as you would need to be able to specify the
format (IP address, various types of integer, strings, flags, arrays)..

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