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<p class="MsoNormal">Setup: Ubuntu server 18.04.2 Kea 1.4.0-P1<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are migrating our subnets from isc dhcp to kea dhcp. We thought we had everything ironed out then this came up.
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<p class="MsoNormal">We get these messages in kea_dhcp.log <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">kea_dhcp 2019-07-24 14:57:37.878 ERROR [kea-dhcp4.packets/23825] DHCP4_PACKET_PROCESS_STD_EXCEPTION exception occurred during packet processing: failed to parse an option '1' holding string value - empty value is not accepted
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<p class="MsoNormal">We found this in the messages doc but didn’t find specific information to troubleshoot it.
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<p class="MsoNormal">We changed logging to debug with no luck in capturing anything else about the discover.
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are only seeing these issues so far when something sends option 60 information. Specifically Meraki devices. We are not doing anything with option 60 in our config.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The mac address of the device does not appear in the logs which makes troubleshooting harder. I did get the discover in a tcp dump from one of the affected devices. That packet is below with our information and the customer’s redacted.
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<p class="MsoNormal">13:37:41.755777 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 254, id 14712, offset 0, flags [none], proto UDP (17), length 382)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> gatewayaddress.bootps > harpy.bootps: [udp sum ok] BOOTP/DHCP, Request from customer’s mac address (oui Unknown), length 354, hops 1, xid 0x54ef0604, Flags [none] (0x0000)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Gateway-IP the subnet’s gateway here<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Client-Ethernet-Address e0:cb:bc:bc:92:34 (oui Unknown)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Vendor-rfc1048 Extensions<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Magic Cookie 0x63825363<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> DHCP-Message Option 53, length 1: Discover<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Client-ID Option 61, length 7: ether customer’s mac<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Hostname Option 12, length 22: "customer gear"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Vendor-Class Option 60, length 6: "MERAKI"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Vendor-Option Option 43, length 3: 1.0.255<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Subnet-Mask, Domain-Name, Default-Gateway, BR<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Hostname, Domain-Name-Server, MTU<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Agent-Information Option 82, length 48:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Circuit-ID SubOption 1, length 32: **********<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Remote-ID SubOption 2, length 12: **************<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> END Option 255, length 0<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> SS Option 16, length 0<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> PAD Option 0, length 0, occurs 2|[rfc1048]<o:p></o:p></p>
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