host-identifier and option 82
Alex Moen
alexm at ndtel.com
Sat Jan 28 23:14:01 UTC 2012
>>
>> ...
>>> the hack to use a separate class and pool for each switchport is no
>>> longer necessary sind isc dhcp has backported host-identifier from
>>> dhcpv6. Sadly the web is full of howtos how to set this up with
>>> classes
>>> and ranges.
>>
>> And even more sadly, the ISC documentation in of dhcp-4.2.3 doesn't
>> seem
>> to mention it. For example, here's a clip from the dhcpd.conf man
>> page,
>> which I read through a dozen times while working on that project:
>
> yes. The only reference to this feature apart from the source code
> seems
> to be a posting on this list.
>
> https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2009-November/010339.html
>
> Sadly the feature was not included in the ldap patches.
>
> I am currently reading the code to see if I can whip up a patch to
> extend dynamic ldap searches to host-identifier.
>
> Greetings
> Christian
If you're feeling ambitious, maybe you can hack a way to "nest" these
as well... so that the function can use more than one identifier (such
as the agent.circuit-id + agent.remote-id + vendor-class-identifier)...
:)
I put in a feature request for this to the ISC group a while back...
Alex
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