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<div
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face="monospace"><span>Hi Philip,</span><br>
<span> According to the Kea ARM, option 58 is governed by the
"rebind-timer" parameter.</span></font></div>
<div
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face="monospace"><span>See:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/arm/dhcp4-srv.html#id6">https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/arm/dhcp4-srv.html#id6</a></span></font></div>
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face="monospace"><span>/Peter</span></font></div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/01/2026 18.06, Philip Prindeville
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:A15561D1-DD00-42E5-9085-75648DF7F381@redfish-solutions.com">
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hi,
I'm looking at this table:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/stable/arm/dhcp4-srv.html#id6"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/stable/arm/dhcp4-srv.html#id6</a>
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
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Peter Davies
Support Engineer
Internet Systems Corporation
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