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NAME
       dhcp-eval - ISC DHCP conditional evaluation
DESCRIPTION
       The Internet Systems Consortium DHCP client and server both provide the
       ability to perform conditional behavior depending on  the  contents  of
       packets  they  receive.  The syntax for specifying this conditional be-
       haviour is documented here.
REFERENCE: CONDITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
       Conditional behaviour is specified using the if statement and the  else
       or  elsif statements.  A conditional statement can appear anywhere that
       a regular statement (e.g., an option statement)  can  appear,  and  can
       enclose  one  or more such statements.  A typical conditional statement
       in a server might be:
       if option dhcp-user-class = "accounting" {
         max-lease-time 17600;
         option domain-name "accounting.example.org";
         option domain-name-servers ns1.accounting.example.org,
                           ns2.accounting.example.org;
       } elsif option dhcp-user-class = "sales" {
         max-lease-time 17600;
         option domain-name "sales.example.org";
         option domain-name-servers ns1.sales.example.org,
                           ns2.sales.example.org;
       } elsif option dhcp-user-class = "engineering" {
         max-lease-time 17600;
         option domain-name "engineering.example.org";
         option domain-name-servers ns1.engineering.example.org,
                           ns2.engineering.example.org;
       } else {
         max-lease-time 600;
         option domain-name "misc.example.org";
         option domain-name-servers ns1.misc.example.org,
                           ns2.misc.example.org;
       }
       On the client side, an example of conditional evaluation might be:
       # example.org filters DNS at its firewall, so we have to use their DNS
       # servers when we connect to their network.  If we are not at
       # example.org, prefer our own DNS server.
       if not option domain-name = "example.org" {
         prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
       }
       The if statement and the elsif continuation statement both take boolean
       expressions  as  their arguments.  That is, they take expressions that,
       when evaluated, produce a boolean result.  If the expression  evaluates
       to true, then the statements enclosed in braces following the if state-
       ment are executed, and  all  subsequent  elsif  and  else  clauses  are
       skipped.   Otherwise,  each  subsequent  elsif  clause's  expression is
       checked, until an elsif clause is encountered whose test  evaluates  to
       true.  If such a clause is found, the statements in braces following it
       are executed, and then  any  subsequent  elsif  and  else  clauses  are
       skipped.  If all the if and elsif clauses are checked but none of their
       expressions evaluate true, then if there is an else clause, the  state-
       ments  enclosed  in  braces  following the else are evaluated.  Boolean
       expressions that evaluate to null are treated as false in conditionals.
BOOLEAN EXPRESSIONS
       The following is the current list of boolean expressions that are  sup-
       ported by the DHCP distribution.
       data-expression-1 = data-expression-2
         The = operator compares the values of two data expressions, returning
         true if they are the same, false if they  are  not.   If  either  the
         left-hand  side  or  the right-hand side are null, the result is also
         null.
       data-expression-1  ~=  data-expression-2  data-expression-1  ~~   data-
       expression-2
         The  ~=  and  ~~  operators  (not  available  on all systems) perform
         extended regex(7) matching of the values  of  two  data  expressions,
         returning  true  if  data-expression-1  matches  against  the regular
         expression evaluated by data-expression-2, or false if  it  does  not
         match  or encounters some error.  If either the left-hand side or the
         right-hand side are null or empty strings, the result is also  false.
         The  ~~  operator  differs  from  the ~= operator in that it is case-
         insensitive.
       boolean-expression-1 and boolean-expression-2
         The and operator evaluates to true if the boolean expression  on  the
         left-hand side and the boolean expression on the right-hand side both
         evaluate to true.  Otherwise, it evaluates to false.  If  either  the
         expression  on the left-hand side or the expression on the right-hand
         side are null, the result is null.
       boolean-expression-1 or boolean-expression-2
         The or operator evaluates to true if either the boolean expression on
         the  left-hand  side or the boolean expression on the right-hand side
         evaluate to true.  Otherwise, it evaluates to false.  If  either  the
         expression  on the left-hand side or the expression on the right-hand
         side are null, the result is null.
       not boolean-expression
         The not operator evaluates to true if boolean-expression evaluates to
         false, and returns false if boolean-expression evaluates to true.  If
         boolean-expression evaluates to null, the result is also null.
       exists option-name
         The exists expression returns true if the specified option exists  in
         the incoming DHCP packet being processed.
       known
         The known expression returns true if the client whose request is cur-
         rently being processed is known - that is, if there's a host declara-
         tion for it.
       static
         The  static  expression  returns  true  if  the lease assigned to the
         client whose request is currently being processed is derived  from  a
         static address assignment.
DATA EXPRESSIONS
       Several of the boolean expressions above depend on the results of eval-
       uating data expressions.  A list of these expressions is provided here.
       substring (data-expr, offset, length)
         The substring operator evaluates the data expression and returns  the
         substring  of  the result of that evaluation that starts offset bytes
         from the beginning, continuing for length bytes.  Offset  and  length
         are  both numeric expressions.  If data-expr, offset or length evalu-
         ate to null, then the result is also null.  If offset is greater than
         or equal to the length of the evaluated data, then a zero-length data
         string is returned.  If length is greater then the  remaining  length
         of the evaluated data after offset, then a data string containing all
         data from offset to the end of the evaluated data is returned.
       suffix (data-expr, length)
         The suffix operator evaluates data-expr and returns the  last  length
         bytes  of the result of that evaluation.  Length is a numeric expres-
         sion.  If data-expr or length evaluate to null, then  the  result  is
         also  null.   If suffix evaluates to a number greater than the length
         of the evaluated data, then the evaluated data is returned.
       lcase (data-expr)
         The lcase function returns the result of  evaluating  data-expr  con-
         verted  to  lower  case.   If  data-expr  evaluates to null, then the
         result is also null.
       ucase (data-expr)
         The ucase function returns the result of  evaluating  data-expr  con-
         verted  to  upper  case.   If  data-expr  evaluates to null, then the
         result is also null.
       option option-name
         The option operator returns the contents of the specified  option  in
         the packet to which the server is responding.
       config-option option-name
         The config-option operator returns the value for the specified option
         that the DHCP client or server has been configured to send.
       gethostname()
         The gethostname() function returns a data string whose contents are a
         character  string,  the results of calling gethostname() on the local
         system with a size limit of 255 bytes (not  including  NULL  termina-
         tor).  This can be used for example to configure dhclient to send the
         local hostname  without  knowing  the  local  hostname  at  the  time
         dhclient.conf is written.
       hardware
         The  hardware  operator  returns a data string whose first element is
         the type of network interface indicated in packet  being  considered,
         and  whose  subsequent  elements are client's link-layer address.  If
         there is no packet, or if the RFC2131 hlen field is invalid, then the
         result is null.  Hardware types include ethernet (1), token-ring (6),
         and fddi (8).  Hardware types are specified by the IETF, and  details
         on  how  the type numbers are defined can be found in RFC2131 (in the
         ISC DHCP distribution, this is included in the doc/ subdirectory).
       packet (offset, length)
         The packet operator returns the specified portion of the packet being
         considered,  or null in contexts where no packet is being considered.
         Offset and length are applied to the contents packet as in  the  sub-
         string operator.
       string
         A  string, enclosed in quotes, may be specified as a data expression,
         and returns the text between the quotes, encoded in ASCII.  The back-
         slash ('\') character is treated specially, as in C programming: '\t'
         means TAB, '\r' means carriage return, '\n' means newline,  and  '\b'
         means  bell.  Any octal value can be specified with '\nnn', where nnn
         is any positive octal number less than 0400.  Any  hexadecimal  value
         can  be  specified  with '\xnn', where nn is any positive hexadecimal
         number less than or equal to 0xff.
       colon-separated hexadecimal list
         A list of hexadecimal octet values, separated by colons, may be spec-
         ified as a data expression.
       concat (data-expr1, ..., data-exprN)
         The expressions are evaluated, and the results of each evaluation are
         concatenated in the sequence that the subexpressions are listed.   If
         any  subexpression evaluates to null, the result of the concatenation
         is null.
       reverse (numeric-expr1, data-expr2)
         The two expressions are evaluated, and then the result of  evaluating
         the  data  expression  is  reversed in place, using hunks of the size
         specified in the numeric expression.  For  example,  if  the  numeric
         expression  evaluates  to  four, and the data expression evaluates to
         twelve bytes of data, then the reverse expression  will  evaluate  to
         twelve  bytes  of  data, consisting of the last four bytes of the the
         input data, followed by the middle four bytes, followed by the  first
         four bytes.
       leased-address
         In  any context where the client whose request is being processed has
         been assigned an IP address, this data  expression  returns  that  IP
         address.  In any context where the client whose request is being pro-
         cessed has not been assigned an ip address, if this  data  expression
         is found in executable statements executed on that client's behalf, a
         log message indicating  "there  is  no  lease  associated  with  this
         client"   is  syslogged  to  the  debug  level  (this  is  considered
         dhcpd.conf debugging information).
       binary-to-ascii (numeric-expr1, numeric-expr2, data-expr1, data-expr2)
         Converts the result of evaluating data-expr2 into a text string  con-
         taining one number for each element of the result of evaluating data-
         expr2.  Each number is separated from the  other  by  the  result  of
         evaluating data-expr1.  The result of evaluating numeric-expr1 speci-
         fies the base (2 through 16) into which the numbers  should  be  con-
         verted.   The  result of evaluating numeric-expr2 specifies the width
         in bits of each number, which may be either 8, 16 or 32.
         As an example of the preceding three types of expressions, to produce
         the  name  of  a  PTR  record  for the IP address being assigned to a
         client, one could write the following expression:
               concat (binary-to-ascii (10, 8, ".",
                                        reverse (1, leased-address)),
                       ".in-addr.arpa.");

       encode-int (numeric-expr, width)
         Numeric-expr is evaluated and encoded as a data string of the  speci-
         fied  width, in network byte order (most significant byte first).  If
         the numeric expression evaluates to the null  value,  the  result  is
         also null.
       pick-first-value (data-expr1 [ ... exprn ] )
         The pick-first-value function takes any number of data expressions as
         its arguments.  Each expression is evaluated, starting with the first
         in the list, until an expression is found that does not evaluate to a
         null value.  That expression is returned, and none of the  subsequent
         expressions  are  evaluated.   If  all expressions evaluate to a null
         value, the null value is returned.
       host-decl-name
         The host-decl-name function returns the name of the host  declaration
         that  matched  the client whose request is currently being processed,
         if any.  If no host declaration  matched,  the  result  is  the  null
         value.
NUMERIC EXPRESSIONS
       Numeric  expressions  are  expressions that evaluate to an integer.  In
       general, the maximum size of such an integer should not be  assumed  to
       be representable in fewer than 32 bits, but the precision of such inte-
       gers may be more than 32 bits.
       extract-int (data-expr, width)
         The extract-int operator extracts an integer value  in  network  byte
         order  from  the  result of evaluating the specified data expression.
         Width is the width in bits of the integer to extract.  Currently, the
         only  supported  widths  are  8, 16 and 32.  If the evaluation of the
         data expression doesn't provide sufficient bits to extract an integer
         of the specified size, the null value is returned.
       lease-time
         The  duration  of the current lease - that is, the difference between
         the current time and the time that the lease expires.
       number
         Any number between zero and the maximum  representable  size  may  be
         specified as a numeric expression.
       client-state
         The  current  state  of the client instance being processed.  This is
         only useful in DHCP client configuration files.  Possible values are:
         o Booting - DHCP client is in the INIT state, and does not  yet  have
           an  IP  address.   The  next message transmitted will be a DHCPDIS-
           COVER, which will be broadcast.
         o Reboot - DHCP client is in the INIT-REBOOT state.   It  has  an  IP
           address, but is not yet using it.  The next message to be transmit-
           ted will be a DHCPREQUEST, which will be broadcast.  If no response
           is heard, the client will bind to its address and move to the BOUND
           state.
         o Select - DHCP client is in the SELECTING state - it has received at
           least  one  DHCPOFFER  message,  but  is  waiting  to see if it may
           receive other DHCPOFFER messages from other servers.   No  messages
           are sent in the SELECTING state.
         o Request  - DHCP client is in the REQUESTING state - it has received
           at least one DHCPOFFER message, and has chosen which  one  it  will
           request.   The  next  message to be sent will be a DHCPREQUEST mes-
           sage, which will be broadcast.
         o Bound - DHCP client is in the BOUND state - it has an  IP  address.
           No messages are transmitted in this state.
         o Renew  -  DHCP  client  is  in  the  RENEWING  state - it has an IP
           address, and is trying to contact the server to renew it.  The next
           message  to  be  sent  will be a DHCPREQUEST message, which will be
           unicast directly to the server.
         o Rebind - DHCP client is in the REBINDING  state  -  it  has  an  IP
           address, and is trying to contact any server to renew it.  The next
           message to be sent will be a DHCPREQUEST, which will be broadcast.
REFERENCE: ACTION EXPRESSIONS
       log (priority, data-expr)
         Logging statements may be used to send information  to  the  standard
         logging  channels.  A logging statement includes an optional priority
         (fatal, error, info, or debug), and a data expression.
         Logging statements take only a single data expression argument, so if
         you  want  to  output  multiple data values, you will need to use the
         concat operator to concatenate them.
       execute (command-path [, data-expr1, ... data-exprN]);
         The execute statement runs an external command.  The  first  argument
         is  a  string  literal  containing the name or path of the command to
         run.  The other arguments, if present, are either string literals  or
         data-  expressions  which  evaluate  to text strings, to be passed as
         command-line arguments to the command.
         execute is synchronous; the program will  block  until  the  external
         command  being  run  has  finished.  Please note that lengthy program
         execution (for example, in an "on commit" in dhcpd.conf)  may  result
         in  bad  performance  and  timeouts.  Only external applications with
         very short execution times are suitable for use.
         Passing user-supplied data to an external application might  be  dan-
         gerous.   Make sure the external application checks input buffers for
         validity.  Non-printable ASCII  characters  will  be  converted  into
         dhcpd.conf  language  octal escapes ("\nnn"), make sure your external
         command handles them as such.
         It is possible to use the execute statement in any context, not  only
         on  events.   If  you  put it in a regular scope in the configuration
         file you will execute that command every time a scope is evaluated.
REFERENCE: DYNAMIC DNS UPDATES
       See the dhcpd.conf and dhclient.conf man  pages  for  more  information
       about DDNS.
SEE ALSO
       dhcpd.conf(5),   dhcpd.leases(5),   dhclient.conf(5),  dhcp-options(5),
       dhcpd(8), dhclient(8), RFC2132, RFC2131.
AUTHOR
       The Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution was  written  by  Ted
       Lemon  under  a contract with Vixie Labs.  Funding for this project was
       provided through Internet Systems Consortium.  Information about Inter-
       net Systems Consortium can be found at https://www.isc.org.

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