On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Baptiste Jonglez <
bapti...@bitsofnetworks.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:32:11AM +0100, Hans Dedecker wrote:
> > It's not always desirable to request option 121 by default. Some ISPs
> > explicitly demand not to request option 121;
>
> Interesting, do you have any reference? Reading RFC 2131 (especially the
> end of section 4.3.1), it seems to me that a DHCP server that does not
> know about option 121 will just ignore the request.
>
This is based on the request we get from ISPs when deploying in their
networks; DHCP servers have support for option 121 but they don't want all
clients to ask for option 121 by default unless explicitly configured.
They want control over which routes they distribute to which clients by
config
Bye,
Hans
>
> > therefore it's better to specify the option explicitly in the reqopts
> > parameter if needed.
>
> That's what we do right now, since our DHCP servers attribute addresses as
> /32 subnets; however, it would be much easier if OpenWRT clients worked
> out-of-the-box on our network.
>
> > Bye,
> > Hans
>
> Thanks,
> Baptiste
>
> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Baptiste Jonglez <
> > bapti...@bitsofnetworks.org> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Baptiste Jonglez <g...@bitsofnetworks.org>
> > >
> > > This option is very useful when the gateway configured by DHCP cannot
> > > be in the same subnet as the client. This happens, for instance, when
> > > using DHCP to hand out addresses in /32 subnets.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Baptiste Jonglez <g...@bitsofnetworks.org>
> > > ---
> > > package/network/config/netifd/files/lib/netifd/proto/dhcp.sh | 2 ++
> > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git
> a/package/network/config/netifd/files/lib/netifd/proto/dhcp.sh
> > > b/package/network/config/netifd/files/lib/netifd/proto/dhcp.sh
> > > index 0e88af9..1eb8010 100755
> > > --- a/package/network/config/netifd/files/lib/netifd/proto/dhcp.sh
> > > +++ b/package/network/config/netifd/files/lib/netifd/proto/dhcp.sh
> > > @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ proto_dhcp_setup() {
> > > append dhcpopts "-x $opt"
> > > done
> > >
> > > + # Classless route option, see RFC 3442
> > > + append dhcpopts "-O 121"
> > > [ "$broadcast" = 1 ] && broadcast="-B" || broadcast=
> > > [ -n "$clientid" ] && clientid="-x 0x3d:${clientid//:/}" ||
> > > clientid="-C"
> > > [ -n "$iface6rd" ] && proto_export "IFACE6RD=$iface6rd"
> > > --
> > > 1.9.1
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