How can dhclient request a prefix delegation of a specific length from provider?
Thomas Markwalder
tmark at isc.org
Tue Oct 4 11:01:22 UTC 2016
On 10/3/16 5:47 PM, John Ioannidis wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Mike <the.lists at mgm51.com> wrote:
>> On 10/1/2016 5:38 PM, John Ioannidis wrote:
>>> If I specify the -P option, my provider dutifully delegates me a /64.
>>> It will, however, delegate me a /56 if I ask for one. How do I specify
>>> the length of the prefix I want delegated?
>>>
>>> If it's documented somewhere, I can't find it :(
>>>
>>
>> Here's a thread that you may find helpful...
>>
>> https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2014-April/017796.html
>>
> Thanks (and to others who responded before).
>
> https://gist.github.com/jayeye/689cb1de2275798659c58c62ab92cfaa is a
> summary of what I did.
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Hello John:
We are looking to address this issue in our next major release, ISC_DHCP
4.4.0. Development on this release is underway, although we do not yet
a have a release time frame for it. We will certainly take your
solution into consideration and would like to commend you for your
efforts. In order to ensure you stay apprised of what we do with this
issue it would help considerably if you could report the issue as a bug
here:
https://www.isc.org/community/report-bug/
Sincerely,
Thomas Markwalder
ISC Software Engineering
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