Make DHCPv6 respond with Remote-ID (opt 37)

Joachim Tingvold joachim at tingvold.com
Sun Apr 27 18:02:03 UTC 2025


Hi,

For DHCPv4, Remote-ID and Circuit-ID are both sub-options of option 82. This means they are both included in responses by-default.

For DHCPv6, these are split into two separate options; option 18 (Interface-ID) and option 37 (Remote-ID). By-default, only Interface-ID is included in responses.

Is there a simple way to “force” isc-dhcpd to include both options in all responses? (and not just option 18).

My first stab was to do this:

  if exists dhcp6.remote-id {
    option dhcp6.remote-id = option dhcp6.remote-id;
  }

… but that didn’t seem to change anything, at least that I could see.

-- 
Joachim


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