dhcpcd-discuss

Hi!

I don't get the userclass to work towards Microsoft dhcp-server... Would it
be possible to get a patch with - - msuserclass?
Using dhcpcd 8.1.2

Thanks!
//Jonas

Den fre 14 feb. 2020 17:33Jonas Ramstrand <jonas.ramstrand@xxxxxxxxx> skrev:

> Thanks Roy!
>
> Found a note regarding this on
>
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-dhcpe/fe8a2dd4-1e8c-4546-bacd-4ae10de02058
>
> Was not super clear though,
> "The use of this alternate format is indicated by the presence of a
> Vendor Class Identifier Option".
> Actually I'm sending both vendor/user class as of now... But I don't have
> access to a Microsoft dhcp-server my self to test. I'll see if I can set up
> something. It's not a to big change to implement msuserclass?
>
> //Jonas
>
>
> Den fre 14 feb. 2020 12:28Roy Marples <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev:
>
>> Hi Jonas
>>
>> On 13/02/2020 15:09, Jonas Ramstrand wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> > I'm using the userclass option, but I understand that it exists two
>> formats for
>> > this. Seems like the Microsoft way is to skip the "UC_Len_i". Do you
>> know if
>> > there is a way to get around this, to use dhcpcd and Microsoft
>> dhcp-server?
>>
>> dhcpcd is fully standards compliant for RFC3004.
>> There is nothing in the RFC that allows UC_Len_i to be skipped.
>>
>> So, short answer is No.
>>
>> Saying that, we could add a new option to dhcpcd called msuserclass which
>> allows
>> this unholyness.
>>
>> Roy
>>
>