[Kea-users] Can't create gitlab account

[Darren Ankney]

Hi Nathan,

I think the reason you had trouble setting up an account in Gitlab was
that you have an @gmail.com address.  There has been some lock-down
needed due to a large amount of spam.  If you have a business email,
you could probably use that.

As far as: "-o 82,1300" not working, when sending option 82 data, you
have to actually specify the entire suboption (id+length+data) as
shown here: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3046#section-2.0 It also
must be converted to hex as would appear in a DHCP packet.  perfdhcp
won't do any of this for you.  It will merely take what you provide,
compute a length , and send: 0x52<length><your data> (at least I think
that is correct).  The easiest thing to do would be to capture DHCP
traffic that already contains this option, open in wireshark, and copy
out the hex for the sub-option as a hex stream.  This should give you
exactly what you need to use on the command line.  For some tips
(though they are instructions for templates) see here:
https://kb.isc.org/docs/how-to-use-perfdhcp-benchmarking-tool

Thank you,
Darren Ankney

On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM Nathan Faulkner
<nathanfaulkner18 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was trying to create an account to report a couple of kea issues, but I got an "Email is not allowed for sign-up." message.
>
> I'm running kea 2.6.2.
>
> Here are the issues I was planning to open:
>
> perfdhcp should specify the relay agent relay port sub option when a local port is specified.  Not sure how it'd work otherwise. https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/kea/-/issues/663 looks to be a related issue.
> When sending the relay agent relay port sub option (by passing "-o 82,1300" to perfdhcp), the debug kea logs show the packet failing to parse for reason "OptionInt 19 truncated". (as a workaround, you can specify junk data "-o 82,13020000")
> It'd be nice if perfdhcp could specify multiple servers.  I was trying to test HA, and normally I'd use a relay server, but perfdhcp itself pretends to be a relay server, which causes conflicts.
>
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