odd issue with defining a vendor code (3.0.3 and 3.0.4)

[amy.rich at tufts.edu]

Greetings, I've been trying to get ISC dhcpd to work with Solaris 9
jumpstart.  Following various documents, I've come up with a mostly workable
dhcpd.conf file, but I'm having an odd issue with one of the codes.

Here's are the important bits from the file:

# Jumpstart Support
option space SUNW;
option SUNW.root-mount-options code 1 = text;
option SUNW.root-server-ip-address code 2 = ip-address;
option SUNW.root-server-hostname code 3 = text;
option SUNW.root-path-name code 4 = text;
option SUNW.swap-server-ip-address code 5 = ip-address;
option SUNW.swap-file-path code 6 = text;
option SUNW.boot-file-path code 7 = text;
option SUNW.posix-timezone-string code 8 = text;
option SUNW.boot-read-size code 9 = unsigned integer 16;
option SUNW.install-server-ip-address code 10 = ip-address;
option SUNW.install-server-hostname code 11 = text;
option SUNW.install-path code 12 = text;
option SUNW.sysid-config-file-server code 13 = text;
option SUNW.jumpstart-server code 14 = text;
option SUNW.terminal-name code 15 = text;
option SUNW.boot-uri code 16 = text;
option SUNW.http-proxy code 17 = text;


group {
  filename "inetboot.SUN4U.Solaris_9-1";
  vendor-option-space SUNW;
  option SUNW.sysid-config-file-server "192.168.1.252:/inst/jumpstart/sysidcfg/SunOS-5.9";
  option SUNW.install-path "/inst/cdrom/SunOS-5.9-sparc";
  option SUNW.root-path-name "/inst/cdrom/SunOS-5.9-sparc/Solaris_9/Tools/Boot";
  option SUNW.root-mount-options "rsize=32768";
  option SUNW.install-server-hostname "jsserver.my.sub.domain";
  option SUNW.install-server-ip-address 192.168.1.252;
  option SUNW.root-server-hostname "jsserver.my.sub.domain";
  option SUNW.jumpstart-server "192.168.1.252:/inst/jumpstart";
  option SUNW.root-server-ip-address 192.168.1.252;
  option SUNW.terminal-name "vt100";
  next-server 192.168.1.252;


  # solaris 9 sparc hosts
  host client {
    hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx;
    fixed-address 192.168.1.99;
    option host-name "client.other.sub.domain";
  }
}

And from /etc/dhcp/inittab on the jumpstart/dhcp server:

#
# SunOS vendor space -- see Solaris System Administrator Collection,
# Sys Admin Guide, Vol 3, "Creating DHCP Options and Macros for
# Solaris Install Parameters" for more information on these options.
#

SrootOpt        VENDOR,         1,      ASCII,     1,   0,      smi
SrootIP4        VENDOR,         2,      IP,        1,   1,      smi
SrootNM         VENDOR,         3,      ASCII,     1,   0,      smi
SrootPTH        VENDOR,         4,      ASCII,     1,   0,      smi
SswapIP4        VENDOR,         5,      IP,        1,   1,      smi
SswapPTH        VENDOR,         6,      ASCII,     1,   0,      smi
SbootFIL        VENDOR,         7,      ASCII,     1,   0,      smi
Stz             VENDOR,         8,      ASCII,     1,   0,      smi
SbootRS         VENDOR,         9,      UNUMBER16, 1,   1,      smi
SinstIP4        VENDOR,         10,     IP,        1,   1,      smi
SinstNM         VENDOR,         11,     ASCII,     1,   0,      smi
SinstPTH        VENDOR,         12,     ASCII,     1,   0,      smi
SsysidCF        VENDOR,         13,     ASCII,     1,   0,      smi
SjumpsCF        VENDOR,         14,     ASCII,     1,   0,      smi
Sterm           VENDOR,         15,     ASCII,     1,   0,      smi
SbootURI        VENDOR,         16,     ASCII,     1,   0,      smi
SHTTPproxy      VENDOR,         17,     ASCII,     1,   0,      smi


The problem is with code 14.  For some reason, when I put a : in the text
string, it ignores the value.  I'm not certain if this is the fault of the
server (I've tried both 3.0.3 and 3.0.4) or the Sun's dhcp client.  The text
for code 13 seems to like the colon just fine, though, so this issue is very
weird, indeed.

Here's the dhcpinfo output from the client (after dhcp booting it into single
users mode from the network):

for i in SrootOpt SrootIP4 SrootNM SbootFIL SrootPTH SbootRS SinstIP4 SinstNM
SinstPTH SsysidCF SjumpsCF SbootURI SHTTPproxy; do
> echo $i; /sbin/dhcpinfo $i
> done
SrootOpt
rsize=32768
SrootIP4
192.168.1.252
SrootNM
jsserver.my.sub.domain
SbootFIL
SrootPTH
/inst/cdrom/SunOS-5.9-sparc/Solaris_9/Tools/Boot
SbootRS
SinstIP4
192.168.1.252
SinstNM
jsserver.my.sub.domain
SinstPTH
/inst/cdrom/SunOS-5.9-sparc
SsysidCF
192.168.1.252:/inst/jumpstart/sysidcfg/SunOS-5.9
SjumpsCF


Is anyone else experiencing this issue (and/or can reproduce it)?  Is there
further debugging I can turn on on the server to determine if it's failing
there (-d isn't very useful in printing out what options it's passing the
client)?

Thanks..