[Kea-users] Kea 1.1-epel conf no longer work with kea 1.6

[Oswald]

Hie Stephan,

Is the client-class "INODE" or "NODE"

/Os

On 26/02/2020 18:07, Stephan_Walter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I moved from the kea 1.1 server, provided through the epel repo of CentOS7,
> to a kea 1.6 server compiled on CentOS8 from srpm.
>
> The new kea worked from the beginning, but when I tried to boot nodes, they
> received the wrong boot-file from the kea. Let me show the relevant part of
> the kea config.
>
>
> {
>   "Dhcp4": {
>  ...
>         "option-data": [ ],
>         "client-classes": [
>         {
>           "name": "INODE",
>           "test": "substring(option[60].hex,0,4) == 'udhcp'",
>           "boot-file-name": "somefancy\n\\,string=now"
>         },
>             {
>                 "name": "bios",
>                 "test": "option[93].hex == 0x0000",
>                 "boot-file-name": "/tftp/bios/lpxelinux.0"
>             },
>             {
>                 "name": "ipxe_efi64",
>                 "test": "option[93].hex == 0x0007",
>                 "boot-file-name": "/tftp/efi64/ipxe.efi"
>             },
>             {
>                 "name": "efi64",
>                 "test": "option[93].hex == 0x0009",
>                 "boot-file-name": "/tftp/efi64/bootx64.efi"
>             }
>          ],
>         "subnet4": [
>             {
>                 "subnet": "10.0.0.1/16",
>                 "reservations": [
> { "hw-address": "XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX", "ip-address": "10.0.2.1",
> "next-server": "10.0.103.22", "hostname": "some_node", "client-classes":
> ["NODE"], "server-hostname": "10.0.103.42"},
>                 ]
>    ....
>
> }
>
>
> So with kea 1.1 the behavior is, that the system boots through PXE and get
> "/tftp/..." as boot-file-name. Afterward, the system make again a DHCP
> request and now get the "somefancy.." string as boot-file-name, that it use
> to fetch additional data for a two stage boot
>
> With kea 1.6 already in the first response the "somefancy..." string is
> replied as boot-file-name, what lead to a non working PXE boot.
>
> I tried now for several days without success to figure out what has changed. 
>
> What I have found is:
>
>
> But even after a reordering of the client class definition, so that the pxe
> boot is at the top, the problem still occurs.
>
> Anybody an idea how I can get with kea 1.6 the same behavior as with 1.1?
>
>
>
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