Yes that's ok. I think most of those fields in dhcp are optional, as a client I think you can even send requests with them included as suggestions to the server. A while ago I had some similar issues with the kernel's built in dhcp code and had read though the RFC back then, but its been a while (my problem then was ATAGS were not being set properly thus overrides were not being processed correctly). The kernel does allow you to dhcp for an address and allows overrides with what ever the dhcp server sends back via boot/init parameters. I would think u-boot should do the same.

The issue with u-boot would seem to be which and "when" environment variable parameters should override dhcp server reply information. I was taking the stance that if you have sent them in env then the code should use them even if they are NOT reasonable. Effort could be made to check and see if variables from the environment and reply are reasonable before setting them, but that seems like to much work at this level....and the desired functionality can be obtained and now has been sort of documented in discussion.

Regards,

Richard W.

-----Original Message----- From: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:wd@denx.de] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:35 AM To: Woodruff, Richard Cc: u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] PATCH : Allow dhcp to get IP address from and keep other env data .

In message FD2AC9A020DDD51194710008C7089B200BEE2232@dlee17.itg.ti.com you wrote:

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Yes, this does work. I hadn't considered this sequence. In

some sense

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it's as much a workaround as a valid solution. The flexibility of having a shell like interpreter goes a long way. I will

likely stick

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with my code to keeps the steps down.

I'm not sure what standard behaviour for DHCP requires - for now, I think I will not change the code. Is this OK with you?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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