Dynamically assign Option to Clients:

[Simon Hobson]

Chris Buxton <clists at buxtonfamily.us> wrote:

> Note that the hardware field is 7 octets long, including a leading 1 that is there for historical reasons.

Being pedantic, it's not there for historical reasons, the 1 is the hardware type (ethernet). Other values exist for other network types (eg token ring) which may also have different hardware identifier lengths.