This acts almost exactly like --dhcp-option except that the defined option
is only sent when replying to PXE clients. More importantly, these
options are sent in reply PXE clients when dnsmasq in acting in PXE
proxy mode. In PXE proxy mode, the set of options sent is defined by
the PXE standard and the normal set of options is not sent. This config
allows arbitrary options in PXE-proxy replies. A typical use-case is
to send option 175 to iPXE. Thanks to Jason Berry for finding the
requirement for this.
As defined in the C standard:
In all cases the argument is an int, the value of which shall
be representable as an unsigned char or shall equal the value
of the macro EOF. If the argument has any other value, the
behavior is undefined.
This is because they're designed to work with the int values returned
by getc or fgetc; they need extra work to handle a char value.
If EOF is -1 (as it almost always is), with 8-bit bytes, the allowed
inputs to the ctype(3) functions are:
{-1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ..., 255}.
However, on platforms where char is signed, such as x86 with the
usual ABI, code like
char *arg = ...;
... isspace(*arg) ...
may pass in values in the range:
{-128, -127, -126, ..., -2, -1, 0, 1, ..., 127}.
This has two problems:
1. Inputs in the set {-128, -127, -126, ..., -2} are forbidden.
2. The non-EOF byte 0xff is conflated with the value EOF = -1, so
even though the input is not forbidden, it may give the wrong
answer.
Casting char to int first before passing the result to ctype(3)
doesn't help: inputs like -128 are unchanged by this cast. It is
necessary to cast char inputs to unsigned char first; you can then
cast to int if you like but there's no need because the functions
will always convert the argument to int by definition. So the above
fragment needs to be:
char *arg = ...;
... isspace((unsigned char)*arg) ...
This patch inserts unsigned char casts where necessary, and changes
int casts to unsigned char casts where the input is char.
I left alone int casts where the input is unsigned char already --
they're not immediately harmful, although they would have the effect
of suppressing some compiler warnings if the input is ever changed to
be char instead of unsigned char, so it might be better to remove
those casts too.
I also left alone calls where the input is int to begin with because
it came from getc; casting to unsigned char here would be wrong, of
course.
This change also removes a previous bug
where --dhcp-alternate-port would affect the port used
to relay _to_ as well as the port being listened on.
The new feature allows configuration to provide bug-for-bug
compatibility, if required. Thanks to Damian Kaczkowski
for the feature suggestion.
There was discussion in the past regarding DHCPv6 NTP server option
which needs special subclassing per RFC5908.
Patch adds support for unicast, multicast IPv6 address and for FQDN string,
preserving possibly used (as suggested earlier) hex value.
Unfortunately it's still not fully free from limitations - only address list or
only fqdn value list is possible, not mixed due current
state option parsing & flagging.
When a request matching the clid or mac address is
recieved the server will iterate over all candidate
addresses until it find's one that is not already
leased to a different clid/iaid and advertise
this address.
Using multiple reservations for a single host makes it
possible to maintain a static leases only configuration
which support network booting systems with UEFI firmware
that request a new address (a new SOLICIT with a new IA_NA
option using a new IAID) for different boot modes, for
instance 'PXE over IPv6', and 'HTTP-Boot over IPv6'. Open
Virtual Machine Firmware (OVMF) and most UEFI firmware
build on the EDK2 code base exhibit this behaviour.
It is possible for a config entry to have one address family specified by a
dhcp-host directive and the other added from /etc/hosts. This is especially
common on OpenWrt because it uses odhcpd for DHCPv6 and IPv6 leases are
imported into dnsmasq via a hosts file.
To handle this case there need to be separate *_HOSTS flags for IPv4 and IPv6.
Otherwise when the hosts file is reloaded it will clear the CONFIG_ADDR(6) flag
which was set by the dhcp-host directive.
Petr Menšík