RFCs supported by ISC DHCP. Is doc/References.* out of date?

Glenn Satchell glenn.satchell at uniq.com.au
Fri Apr 19 09:29:51 UTC 2013


Even simpler, look at the RFCs, then look at the man page for dhcp-options
and see what is covered there. Pretty much al dhcp options are pre-defined
or covered by he Define Your Own Options setting.

ISC dhcpd is very flexible when it comes to defining options.

regards,
-glenn

On Fri, April 19, 2013 5:21 am, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2013-04-17, Shankar Anand R wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Sorry for the naive query, but I couldn't find the information I needed
>> easily.
>>
>> I need information if ISC DHCP supports the following RFCs:
>>
>> RFC 3319 SIP Servers Options
>> RFC 3633 IPv6 Prefix Delegation Options
>> RFC 3646 DNS Configuration options
>> RFC 3736 Stateless  service
>> RFC 3898 NIS server option, NIS domain option
>> RFC 4075 SNTP Configuration Option
>> RFC 4242 Information Refresh Time Option
>> RFC 4649 Relay Agent Remote-ID Option
>> draft-ietf-dhc--prefix-pool-opt-01
>>
>> Can someone help me out with this information?
>>
>> I looked into doc/References.* inside 4.2.5-P1, but I was not sure if
>> this is
>> up to date. For example, section 6.1 says DHCPv6 relay is not supported
>> though
>> code for the same is present.
>>
>> If this information is already available somewhere and if I have been
>> blind to
>> have not seen it, kindly redirect me there.
>>
>> Your help is much appreciated.
>
> The place I look for that information is the file common/tables.c.
> It doesn't always name the RFCs, but if you know the option numbers
> from the RFC, you can determine from the dhcp_options and
> dhcpv6_options tables whether the options are supported.
>
> HTH,
> Gary




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