dhcp option 90 (was: conflicting command line options and dhcp.conf statements)

[David W. Hankins]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:47:30PM +1000, Glenn Satchell wrote:
> >I am looking for the DHCP server with authentication option - 90.
> >I am seraching through the net but could not find it.
> 
> ISC dhcp server can be configured to supply any options, see the
> man page 'dhcp-options'.

Except that one.

The authentication option needs the server and/or client to sign and
validate the contents of the DHCP packet themselves.  That's a
behaviour you're not going to be able to encode in dhcpd.conf config
syntax.

At least, I really hope that's not possible.

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