Ubuntu
dhcp3 package

dhclient should accept routing options

Bug #164128 reported by Jerome Haltom on 2007-11-20

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	dhcp3 (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

dhclient should accept the dhcp options:

33 - Static Route Option
249 - Classless Static Routes

These are used to push common network routes to clients on a DHCP network. I have seen them in common use on various Windows networks, where the DHCP UI provided by Windows sets these options when the user asks it to push static routes.

To be equally compatible on Windows networks, users would expect these options to work. I cannot see any downside to accepting the options.

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Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote on 2008-03-25:

Thanks for the bug report.

Changed in dhcp3:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Triaged

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Roy Sindre Norangshol (norangshol) wrote on 2009-11-11:

This bug affects me, as my SpeedTouch home router seems to switch over to 249 - Classless Static Routes after Ive been into Windows 7 instead of using the RFC Classless Static Routes 121.

Might also be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dhcp3/+bug/164128 .
I also made a blog post about the issue: http://www.roysindre.no/a/2009/11/05/dhclient-classless-static-route-bug/