Subject: Re: Kernel/loader DHCP vendor class identifier, option space?
To: Nino Dehne <ndehne@gmail.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/26/2005 10:09:22
On Jul 26, 2005, at 12:30 AM, Nino Dehne wrote:

> This would massively ease the creation of compact and powerful dhcpd
> configs. Although the current drawbacks are more the result of dhcpd
> lacking some sophisticated string processing like regexes, I like the
> idea of having separate data snippets instead of a single string with
> data glued together by ':'.
>
> Is this a worthwhile idea?

Probably.  You don't even have to change the current VCI (doesn't  
hurt to duplicate the information).

I would suggest the following to represent what is currently in the  
VCI (with one addition):

netbsd.machine
netbsd.machine_arch
netbsd.requestor
netbsd.version

-- thorpej