From: Ted Lemon Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 23:21:04 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Update the agent option documentation. X-Git-Tag: V3-BETA-2-PATCH-7~14 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c0017c75602911ade9779ac0239af83d995897a8;p=thirdparty%2Fdhcp.git Update the agent option documentation. --- diff --git a/common/dhcp-options.5 b/common/dhcp-options.5 index aeb2d9ebb..2e55c5f6f 100644 --- a/common/dhcp-options.5 +++ b/common/dhcp-options.5 @@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ The WWW server option specifies a list of WWW available to the client. Servers should be listed in order of preference. .RE .SH RELAY AGENT INFORMATION OPTION -An IETF draft, draft-ietf-dhc-agent-options-03.txt, defines a series +An IETF draft, draft-ietf-dhc-agent-options-11.txt, defines a series of encapsulated options that a relay agent can add to a DHCP packet when relaying it to the DHCP server. The server can then make address allocation decisions (or whatever other decisions it wants) @@ -861,9 +861,10 @@ purposes. .PP The current draft defines two options. To reference these options in the dhcp server, specify the option space name, -"agent", followed by a period, followed by the option name. It isn't -useful to specify these options to be sent, nor is it useful to -reference them at all in the client. +"agent", followed by a period, followed by the option name. It is +not normally useful to define values for these options in the server, +although it is permissible. These options are not supported in the +client. .PP .B option \fBagent.circuit-id\fR \fIstring\fR\fB;\fR .RS 0.25i