dhcpcd-discuss

Ah sorry.

To be clear, you can send option 17 with as many sub-options as you want 
but you can only request option 17 - you can't request sub-options.
I don't think dhcpcd supports sending of sub-options yet.

On 29/05/2019 12:27, Shweta Kalyani wrote:
> Yes I see only Option17 in ORO of Solicit message and in response I do 
> get the sub-options from the server.
> Its just that I came across this link where I saw sub-options being sent 
> in option 17 for Solicit itself, so I wanted to confirm.
> The link has Chinese content but you get the jist :) It seems to be 
> sending vendor specific data and also requesting vendor specifc info in 
> option 17 - ORO within option 17.
> http://jianiau.blogspot.com/2014/05/packetcable-20-ipv6-CNR-FQDN.html
>
> Thanks,
> Shweta
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 4:19 PM Roy Marples <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     For DHCPv6, only option 17 should be in ORO.
>     The server sends this back with the sub options within in.
>     You should see this in pcap, if not it's a server issue and not dhcpcd's
>
>     Roy
>
>
>     On 29/05/2019 10:23, Shweta Kalyani wrote:
>      > Thanks Roy,
>      > I am able to define the vendor options in the conf file and get the
>      > vendor specific data in the hook file.
>      > On taking pcap, although option 17 is requested under ORO, its
>      > sub-options which are defined in the conf file are not seen.
>     Should the
>      > sub-options of Option 17 been seen in pcap?
>      > I am using dhcpcd-7.0.0
>      >
>      > Thanks,
>      > Shweta
>      >
>      >
>      > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 7:30 PM Roy Marples <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>      > <mailto:roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     On 25/04/2019 14:51, Shweta Kalyani wrote:
>      >      > Hi Roy,
>      >      > Thanks but it is not clear how the options are to be
>     processed in
>      >     the
>      >      > hook script.
>      >      > Is there some link I can read up for the same?
>      >
>      >     Uh no?
>      >
>      >     The option are *vendor* specific.
>      >     ie, dhcpcd has no idea what these options look like.
>      >     So you have to define them in dhcpcd.conf and use what you
>     defined in
>      >     the hook script.
>      >
>      >     Roy
>      >