host-identifier and option 82

[Alex Moen]

>>
>> ...
>>> 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