[kea-dev] Quoting integer values

[Peter Davies]

Hi Philip,
   According to the Kea ARM, option 58 is governed by the "rebind-timer" 
parameter.
See: https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/arm/dhcp4-srv.html#id6
/Peter


On 15/01/2026 18.06, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at this table:
>
> https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/stable/arm/dhcp4-srv.html#id6
>
> Where it says that "dhcp-renewal-time" is a uint32 but I need to encode it as a string in the config file:
>
> Syntax check failed with: /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf:191.25-28: syntax error, unexpected integer, expecting constant string
>
> Or I get the above message:
>
>     189               {
>     190                 "name": "dhcp-renewal-time",
>     191                 "data": 1800,
>     192                 "always-send": true
>     193               }
>
> Why?
>
> Other things like "valid-lifetime" don't require quotes.
>
> Why the discrepancy?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Philip
>
> -- 

-- 
Peter Davies
Support Engineer
Internet Systems Corporation
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