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<p>In the process of testing Kea for our environment, I have uncovered a peculiar use-case. We have a particular vendor whose gear requires option 43 to contain a string.</p>
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<p>In our ISC DHCP server, we do this with (hex for the string "SWRD"):</p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">option vendor-encapsulated-options 53:57:52:44;</span></p>
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<p>which shows up in a tcpdump as (decimal for the string "SWRD"):</p>
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<div><span style="white-space:pre"></span> Vendor-Option Option 43, length 4: 83.87.82.68</div>
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<div>I'm trying to find out to accomplish this with Kea. Option 43 is already defined as type 'empty', and I can't override this in the kea.conf file. I haven't tried to implement this as a sub-option, as it would prepend the string with a code and length.
Any ideas how I could make this work? Could I conceivably override the option in a hook? Or would I still face the same restrictions with overriding the option type?</div>
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Duane Wylie<br>
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