Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Can Ethereal Support WfM and PXE DHCP?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:31:31 -0800
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:10:05PM -0500, Gordon Zhang wrote:
> My is Gordon at nSolutions.  I am working on a product to support
> Intel's and 3Com's Ethernet NIC WfM and PXE (Wired for Management and
> Preboot Execution Environment) features.  The WfM and PXE use RFC 2131
> DHCP with new Options Tags to send and receive packets.  In other words,
> the DHCP-DISCOVER and DHCP-OFFER carry new Options Tags.  I want to know
.if Ethereal can support the WfM and PXE. 

If it doesn't support dissecting those option tags in its BOOTP/DHCP
dissector, it could probably be made to do so, by somebody who has

	1) the time to do so

and

	2) a specification that documents those option tags.

I don't know what those option tags are, so I don't know whether it
supports them.  Back in 2001, some code was added to support dissecting
some PXE client suboptions, but I don't know whether that's all of the
options that PXE uses.