Accessing DHCP Client's vendor-encapsulated-options

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Published on 2010-03-04T01:18:26Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 8:43 UTC
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In the dhcpd.conf file for isc-dhcpd-V3.1.1, I have set up a vendor options space and defined several different options. I am able to use those definitions to send options from the server to the client in the vendor-encapsulated-options option (code 43).

However, the client is also sending vendor options back to the server, in the same way, and I'd like to respond differently depending on the type and contents of the options. As far as I can tell, the the server isn't parsing the client's vendor-encapsulated-options at all - the option operator is just returning null.

Is there a way to get the server to populate the options in the vendor space I've defined?

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