dhcpcd-discuss

Thanks! I will check it out and let you know shortly.

Regards,
-shahid

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 4:06 PM Roy Marples <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Shahid
>
> On 19/09/2018 15:03, Shahid Mahmood wrote:
> > Hello List,
> > We are trying to configure dhcpcd for ipv6 such that it would request
> > vendor option 17, with encapsulated sub-option: 'nnn'.
> >
> > We tried the following in dhcpcd.conf:
> >
> > option 17
> >
> > Which didn't work.
> > Looking for help in configuring this, properly in .conf file.
> > (We do have an IANA assigned enterprise-number as per RFC 3315)
>
> You just need to request option 17, which you need to do like so:
>
> option dhcp6_vivso
>
> Then tell dhcpcd.conf how to interpret the option.
> dhcpcd-definitions.conf has this example:
>
> ##############################################################################
> # Vendor-Identifying Vendor Options
> # An example:
> #vendopt 12345  encap                   frobozzco
> #encap 1        string                  maze_location
> #encap 2        byte                    grue_probability
>
> see here for it being tested on dnsmasq:
> http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2013q4/007865.html
>
> I've not tested it recently, will try and do so later.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Roy
>