dhcpcd-discuss

Hi Mike

On 18/10/2017 23:18, Mike McCabe wrote:
> Our organization maintains a large fleet of pxe-booted raspberry pis. 
> We transmit some environment information to them via DHCP options. 
> We're evaluating a switch from Raspbian Jessie (dhcpcd 6.7.1)  to
> Stretch (dhcpcd 6.10.1).
> 
> We use 'dhcpcd --dumplease eth0' to read the custom options, but they're
> missing from 6.10.1 output.  Conf files are unchanged.  'od -a
> /var/lib/dhcpcd5/dhcpcd-eth0.lease' on the client shows text from the
> custom options (e.g. 'demo', below)
> 
> /etc/dhcpcd.conf on client has: 
> define 239 string vium-env
> option vium-env
> 
> /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf on server has
> option vium-env code 239 = text;
> option vium-env "demo";
> 
> ... and 6.7.1 shows
> 
> vium-env='demo'
> 
> ... but 6.10.1 does not.
> 
> Is this a known issue?
> 
> Any help appreciated!

I don't recall that ever being a reported issue.
Testing shows it works fine using your config.

# ./dhcpcd --version
dhcpcd 7.0.0-rc3
Copyright (c) 2006-2017 Roy Marples
Compiled in features: INET ARP ARPing IPv4LL INET6 DHCPv6 AUTH
# ./dhcpcd -U4 xennet0 | grep vium
vium-env=demo

netbsd$ ./dhcpcd --version
dhcpcd 6.10.1
Copyright (c) 2006-2016 Roy Marples
netbsd$ ./dhcpcd -U4 xennet0 | grep vium
dhcpcd: open: /var/log/dhcpcd.log: Permission denied
vium-env=demo
netbsd$

Roy