DHCP option 161

[Glenn Satchell]

David, you got it right.

Ryan, there is a section towards the end of the dhcp-options man page
titled "DEFINING NEW OPTIONS". You need to define the option format once,
then assign the value to it in the appropriate scope(s).

regards,
-glenn

> Just a thought (meaning I haven't test it myself.) - It seems the server
> doesn't recognize "ftpserver", so maybe you should define it to map to
> option 161 by:
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> option ftpserver code 161 = string;
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> And then use it, wherever you need, by:
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> option ftpserver "172.30.108.50";
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> HTH,
>
> David Ganor
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>
>
> From: dhcp-users-bounces+david=oliver-solutions.com at lists.isc.org
> [mailto:dhcp-users-bounces+david=oliver-solutions.com at lists.isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Ryan Setiawan H
> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 5:48 AM
> To: dhcp-users at lists.isc.org
> Subject: DHCP option 161
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>     need help ... I'm using FreeBSD 8.2 with ISC DHCP 4.1.2-P1, I
> configure
> 2 server with failover.
>     recently because of VDI piloting, we'll deploy many wyse thin client,
> that load the config from FTP server ( NOT TFTP ). according to the wyse
> manual book, the wyse FTP parameter could be set by DHCP option code 161.
> I've googling how to add dhcp option 161. many answer exist, but none
> work...
> here some of them :
> -->option ftpserver code 161 = 172.30.108.50;
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server 4.1.2-P1
> Copyright 2004-2011 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
> /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf line 7: unknown data type 172
> option ftpserver code 161 = 172.
>                              ^
> Configuration file errors encountered -- exiting
>
> -->option ftpserver code 161 = "172.30.108.50";
> /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf line 7: unknown data type 172.30.108.50
> option ftpserver code 161 = "172.30.108.50"
>                              ^
> Configuration file errors encountered -- exiting
>
> -->option ftpserver code 161 "172.30.108.50";
> /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf line 7: expecting "="
> option ftpserver code 161 "172.30.108.50"
>                            ^
> Configuration file errors encountered -- exiting
>
> -->option option-161 "172.30.108.50"; ( this is from the man 5
> dhcp-options
> )
> /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf line 8: unknown option dhcp.option-161
> option option-161 "172.30.108.50"
>         ^
> Configuration file errors encountered -- exiting
>
> is there working configuration for this particular version ( 4.1.2-P1 )
>
> See my full config :
>
> authoritative;
> ddns-update-style none;
> default-lease-time 86400; #1 day
> max-lease-time 604800; #1 week
> option domain-name "xxx.com";
> omapi-port 7911;
>
>
> failover peer "dhcp-failover" {
>   primary; # declare this to be the primary server
>   address 192.168.13.151;
>   port 647;
>   peer address 192.168.28.151;
>   peer port 647;
>   max-response-delay 30;
>   max-unacked-updates 10;
>   load balance max seconds 3;
>   mclt 1800;
>   split 128;
> }
>
>
> shared-network BDG-AA-3-V200 {
>         subnet 192.168.5.0 netmask 255.255.255.128 {
>         option broadcast-address 192.168.5.127;
>         option subnet-mask 255.255.255.128;
>         option routers 192.168.5.1;
>         option domain-name-servers 192.168.11.96, 192.168.11.69;
>         option ntp-servers 192.168.11.19;
> #       option ftpserver code 161 = 172.30.108.50;
> #       option option-161 172.30.108.50;
> #       option option-162 "pub/config";
>         pool    {
>                 host me { hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:20:1d:f4;
> fixed-address
> 192.168.5.14; option host-name "me"; }
>                 range 192.168.5.31 192.168.5.125;
>                 failover peer "dhcp-failover";
>                 }
>         }
> }
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan Setiawan H
>
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