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claudio_22
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bootpd .. client specicified invalid ...

Hello ,

what could means this ?

bootpd[1805]: Option 43: Client specified unacceptable option length (87 octets)


I've not found anything about .

Thanks

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Orhan Biyiklioglu
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Re: bootpd .. client specicified invalid ...

Stephen Keane
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Re: bootpd .. client specicified invalid ...

One of the messages that the bootp protocol defines in message # 43 which is vendor specific data. The bootpd server is complaining that the message from the client contained an invalid length in this request. The request is in the form

[43][n][data][data]...[data]

Where 43 is the message type and 'n' indicates the number of bytes (octets) of data following. If the server doesn't understand the vendor specific data (and it doesn't have to, if for example the client and server are running different operating systems or are from different hardware manufacturers) it can ignore it and may optionally log a warning.

You may stop and restart bootpd with a debugging flag to see which client is causing the warning to be issued if you wish.