Created attachment 322386 [details] dhclient fix for "bad format a" bug Use a vendor extension with dhcp6/dhclient with the following format in the dhcp6 config file: option dhcp6.local-something code 224 = array of ip6-address; subnet6 <IPv6-Network> { option dhcp6.local-something <IPv6-Address>; } Use something like the following in the IPv6 dhclient configuration file: option dhcp6.local-something code 224 = array of ip6-address; request dhcp6.local-something; This works when dhclient is invoked for the first time and "dhcp6.local-something" is not yet in the leases file. On subsequent dhclient invocations, however, dhcliend spills "parse_option_param: Bad format a" and skips "dhcp6.local-something" forever. The attached patch fixes this. It is based on: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?file=dhcp-4.2.1-dhclient-parse_option_param-Bad-format-a.patch&package=dhcp.import5685&project=openSUSE%3A11.4%3AUpdate&rev=7730bf3ce2eaca1433b1ef2819704127 Some more explanation is available there, too.
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Add fix from OpenSUSE for parsing "a" options http://sources.gentoo.org/net-misc/dhcp/dhcp-4.2.4_p2.ebuild?rev=1.1 http://sources.gentoo.org/net-misc/dhcp/files/dhcp-4.2.1-dhclient-parse_option_param-Bad-format-a.patch?rev=1.1
