RFC 2242 (rfc2242) - Page 2 of 6
NetWare/IP Domain Name and Information
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RFC 2242 NetWare/IP Domain Name and Information November 1997
o "DHCP server"
A DHCP server is an Internet host that returns configuration
parameters to DHCP clients.
2. The NetWare/IP Domain Name option
This option code is used to convey the NetWare/IP domain name used by
the NetWare/IP product. The NetWare/IP Domain in the option is an NVT
ASCII [RFC 854] string whose length is inferred from the option 'len'
field.
The code for this option is 62, and its maximum length is 255.
Code Len NetWare/IP Domain Name
+-----+-----+------+------+------+-----
| 62 | n | c1 | c2 | c3 | ...
+-----+-----+------+------+------+-----
The 'len' field gives the length of the NetWare/IP Domain Name.
3. The NetWare/IP Information option
The NetWare/IP option code will be used to convey all the NetWare/IP
related information except for the NetWare/IP domain name.
The code for this option is 63, and its maximum length is 255. A
number of NetWare/IP sub-options will be conveyed using this option
code. The 'len' field for this option gives the length of the option
data, which includes the sub-option code, length and data fields.
Each sub-option contains in sequential order, a one byte sub-option
code, a one byte length, and an optional multiple byte value field.
The sub-option length gives the length of the value field for the
sub-option. The example below illustrates the use of the 'len' and
sub-option length fields in this option.
One and only one of the following four sub-options must be the first
sub-option to be present in option 63 encoding. Each of them is
simply a type length pair with length set to zero.
Sub-options:
NWIP_DOES_NOT_EXIST (code 1)
The responding DHCP server does not have any NetWare/IP
information configured.
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