Hi Francis,

Benefit is in testing DHCP clients and ensure their full compliance with RFCs, before they're deployed in the field.

Typically, DHCP servers send the DHCP options in the same order as is sent by dhcpd. But there are servers which send DHCP options in a different order. We discovered this recently with a Cisco's DHCP server.

Thanks,
Karthik KS

Nokia Networks
Bangalore

-----Original Message-----
From: Francis Dupont via RT [mailto:dhcp-public@isc.org] 
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 1:49 PM
To: Ks, Karthik (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) <karthik.ks@nokia.com>
Subject: [ISC-Bugs #45488] isc-dhcpd-4.2.4-P1 - Request to enhance DHCPD to allow the user to modify the order of options in DHCP messages

On Fri Jun 30 06:47:04 2017, karthik.ks@nokia.com wrote:
> Request enhancement in DHCPD, so that, the user can specify the order
> in which the options can be sent.

=> what is the intended benefit?