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Feature #16400

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The DHCP Server does not have a Force option to force the sending of the option.

Added by RUI YUAN about 2 months ago. Updated about 1 month ago.

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Very Low
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DHCP Server (IPv4)
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Description

The DHCP Server does not have a Force option to force the sending of the option.
My ISP uses DHCP Option to verify whether the device is allowed to use IPTV. It uses Option 125 Force to send to verify the device.
However, the DHCP Server Option in pfSense does not have the force option available.
Of course I can switch to Kea DHCP and fill in the json manually, but I still wish pfSense could have a way to manually set the force in the UI.

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Updated by RUI YUAN about 2 months ago

Missing something like dhcp-option-force for dnsmasq

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Updated by Kris Phillips about 1 month ago

  • Priority changed from Normal to Very Low

I'll leave this here for now, but I doubt an option like this will be implemented. The JSON is retained in the config.xml and is trivial to implement any custom options the DHCP server GUI doesn't present.

This is largely because there are a large number of DHCP options that are available and adding UI elements to all of them would make the UI bloated.

For example: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14297

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