[Kea-users] "filename" vs "option bootfile-name"

alexis alzrck at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 12:58:17 UTC 2016


hello all, sorry to interfere, but I would like to mention something
regarding this.

In cable world, specially on the cable modem part, the boot-filename is
only read from the opt67.

Regards

El 10 jul. 2016 6:33 a. m., "Patrik Lundin" <patrik at sigterm.se> escribió:

> Hello,
>
> I have been looking at the possibility of setting the boot file in kea.
> In dhcpd this is of course generally done with the "filename" setting,
> which sets the "file" field in the DHCP header.
>
> From reading https://kea.isc.org/wiki/ConfigurationMigration it is clear
> there is no equivalent of the "filename" setting, and the page is
> hinting this is a BOOTP leftover.
>
> Do I understand correctly that kea will never set the "file" field in
> the DHCP header, and I must instead use the DHCP option bootfile-name (67)?
>
> I have been able to boot pxelinux using that option, however I am
> running into problems with the autoboot feature of OpenBSD which is
> specifically trying to parse out "filename" from the dhclient leasefile.
>
> I just want to make sure I am not missing something in regards to kea.
> If this is the way forward I will contact the OpenBSD folks instead.
>
> --
> Patrik Lundin
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