vyatta-dhcp-global-option

This package adds support for configuring global options for dhclient on UniFi Security Gateway.

Improvements

• Write configured global-options to e.g. /var/run/dhclient_eth0.conf
• Re-generate dhclient config on configuration changes

Installation

Download the latest release from Releases.

curl -sSL -o /tmp/dhcp-global-option-0.0.2-1.deb https://github.com/mafredri/vyatta-dhcp-global-option/releases/download/v0.0.2/dhcp-global-option-0.0.2-1.deb
sudo dpkg -i /tmp/dhcp-global-option-0.0.2-1.deb

Automatic restore after firmare upgrade

The UniFi Security Gateway runs a script (etc/init.d/ubnt-rcS) after firmware upgrades, it looks for .deb packages in /config/data/firstboot/install-packages and if there are any, installs them. We can utilize this folder to make sure the package remains installed.

mkdir -p /config/data/firstboot/install-packages
mv /tmp/dhcp-global-option-0.0.2-1.deb /config/data/firstboot/install-packages

Example use cases

This package can be used to request custom dhcp option from the dhcp server (e.g. your ISP).

Enable option-6rd request

Can be configured either via terminal or config.gateway.json. Only the latter will persist after firmware upgrades and possibly restarts.

Configure via terminal

configure
set interfaces ethernet eth0 dhcp-options global-option "option option-6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8, unsigned integer 16, unsigned integer 16, unsigned integer 16, unsigned integer 16, unsigned integer 16, unsigned integer 16, unsigned integer 16, unsigned integer 16, array of ip-address };"
set interfaces ethernet eth0 dhcp-options client-option "also request option-6rd;"
commit
save

Configure via config.gateway.json

{
  "interfaces": {
    "ethernet": {
      "eth0": {
        "dhcp-options": {
          "global-option": [
            "option option-6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8, unsigned integer 16, unsigned integer 16, unsigned integer 16, unsigned integer 16, unsigned integer 16, unsigned integer 16, unsigned integer 16, unsigned integer 16, array of ip-address };"
          ],
          "client-option": [
            "also request option-6rd;",
            "retry 60;"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
  }
}