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<font size="2" face="Courier 10 Pitch">I've been trying - thinking
is the easiest to read - this syntax:<br>
```<br>
...<br>
"client-classes": [<br>
{<br>
"name": "VMWARE",<br>
"test": "(pkt4.mac == 0x02981b6d3612 or pkt4.mac ==
0x0202bf56c0a0 or pkt4.mac == 029df779a717 or pkt4.mac ==
02f6e218dd40 or pkt4.mac == 02a632946d96 or pkt4.mac ==
027aeb9b8715 or pkt4.mac == 029521b6cb87 or pkt4.mac ==
02804c4e9f14)",<br>
"option-data": [<br>
...<br>
```<br>
but KEA fails with:<br>
<br>
kea-dhcp4[1919448]: 2025-12-18 14:03:14.719 ERROR
[kea-dhcp4.dhcp4/1919448.140155453429888] DHCP4_PARSER_FAIL failed
to create or run parser for configuration element client-classes:
expression: [(pkt4.mac == 0x02981b6d3612 or pkt4.mac ==
0x0202bf56c0a0 or pkt4.mac == 029df779a717 or pkt4.mac ==
02f6e218dd40 or pkt4.mac == 02a632946d96 or pkt4.mac ==
027aeb9b8715 or pkt4.mac == 029521b6cb87 or pkt4.mac ==
02804c4e9f14)] error: <string>:1.77: Invalid character: d at
(/etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf:21:21)<br>
<br>
<br>
is it because of KEA version which in my case is 2.6.4 ?<br>
thanks, L.</font>
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