[Dnsmasq-discuss] Conditional sending of different DHCP-Options

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Thu Aug 14 09:47:51 BST 2008


joerg jungermann wrote:
> Hi !
> 

>> The obvious thing there is that the DHCP packets from the client are
>> subtly wrong, they are messing the "end" option. I think that this is
>> interacting with a bug in dnsmasq which means that the last option in
>> the packet does not get recognised. Normally this is the "end" option,
>> so it doesn't matter, but in this case it's the vendor-class option, so
>> that is being missed.
>>
>> Can you easily upgrade dnsmasq to version 2.45, the latest? I believe
>> that this bug was fixed in 2.43 and just doing the upgrade should fix
>> the problem.

> Upgrading to 2.45 fixes this problem.
> 

Great. It would be good to push a bug report to the authors of the
client. Is that possible? I'm happy to talk to them direct if you can
give me contact info, or to give you details of what's wrong for you to
pass on.


Cheers,

Simon.




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