proposed bootpd change

[Clark Gaylord]

Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> I can think of two ways to enable the user to configure the
> client port, one is to add a command-line flag to bootpd, the
> other one is to infer the client port number from the server
> port number, which is what the attached patch does.
> 
> Would people be comfortable with modifying bootpd in one
> of these two ways ?

I agree that this would be a desirable feature.

Whether to allow a client port other than bootps_port+1 is an 
interesting question.  I don't recall the spec prohibiting it, but one 
could imagine someone somewhere wanting to use 1067 and 10068.  I don't 
know that we want to accomodate that ... seems a bit feeping to me ... 
but it is an interesting question.  Maybe for that we say "if you are 
that insane, you have to edit /etc/services".

Perhaps a
	case 'p'
in "Read switches" block?  Or maybe it is time to reuse 's'?  How long 
has it been deprecated?

--ckg