Hello

I am looking for informations decribing if the "DHCP Message Type"
option must always be on first position on the DHCP message or if any
option can be on any order.
Anybody an idea on this topics wouls me.

Many thanks and best regards
Michel

michlemer@yahoo.fr writes:
> I am looking for informations decribing if the "DHCP Message Type"
> option must always be on first position on the DHCP message or if any
> option can be on any order.
> Anybody an idea on this topics wouls me.

Nothing in the standards requires it to be first, but I wouldn't be
surprised at all to find that some implementations fail if it's not
first.

Thus, a prudent implementation would always place the option first in
any message it sends (and would likely carefully order other options
as well), and would accept the options in any order in messages it
receives.

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