Re: Ethereal comparison 1.265 vs 1.270 DHCP Discover

[Bill Moss <bmoss clemson edu>]

I think older hardware may reject messages that are too short. The UDP 
part of the message contains a BOOTP section of options and there was a 
time when BOOTP messages had a minimize size of 300 bytes. If this is 
what the SMC is doing, the a message with a UDP part of 297 bytes will 
not pass muster. This is just a guess. I suppose you can pad the message 
one byte at a time and see where the boundary is. I am betting on 300 or 
312.

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Bill Moss
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Clemson University