dhcproto

A DHCP parser and encoder for DHCPv4/DHCPv6. dhcproto aims to be a functionally complete DHCP implementation. Many common option types are implemented, PRs are welcome to flesh out missing types.

Attention! We are developing a DHCP server using this library called dora!

features

• v4 is 100% safe rust (v6 uses get_unchecked after bounds have been checked)
• v4 & v6 Message types
• v4 & v6 message header getters/setters, all data mutable
• option types with 100's of fully type safe variants (accepting PR's for unknown variants)
• Long option encoding supported (RFC 3396) (allows encoding options longer than 255 bytes)
• benchmarked encoding/decoding

crates.io

https://crates.io/crates/dhcproto

Minimum Rust Version

This crate uses const generics, Rust 1.53 is required

Examples

(v4) Decoding/Encoding

use dhcproto::v4::{Message, Encoder, Decoder, Decodable, Encodable};
// decode
let bytes = dhcp_offer();
let msg = Message::decode(&mut Decoder::new(&bytes))?;
// now encode
let mut buf = Vec::new();
let mut e = Encoder::new(&mut buf);
msg.encode(&mut e)?;

(v4) Constructing messages

use dhcproto::{v4, Encodable, Encoder};
// hardware addr
let chaddr = vec![
    29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44,
];
// construct a new Message
let mut msg = v4::Message::default();
msg.set_flags(v4::Flags::default().set_broadcast()) // set broadcast to true
    .set_chaddr(&chaddr) // set chaddr
    .opts_mut()
    .insert(v4::DhcpOption::MessageType(v4::MessageType::Discover)); // set msg type

// set some more options
msg.opts_mut()
    .insert(v4::DhcpOption::ParameterRequestList(vec![
        v4::OptionCode::SubnetMask,
        v4::OptionCode::Router,
        v4::OptionCode::DomainNameServer,
        v4::OptionCode::DomainName,
    ]));
msg.opts_mut()
    .insert(v4::DhcpOption::ClientIdentifier(chaddr));

// now encode to bytes
let mut buf = Vec::new();
let mut e = Encoder::new(&mut buf);
msg.encode(&mut e)?;
// buf now has the contents of the encoded DHCP message

RFCs supported

DHCPv6:

• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8415
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3646
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3633
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5007 (message types only)
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5460 (message types/status codes only, no opt 53)
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6977 (message types only)
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7341 (message types only)

DHCPv4:

• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2131
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3011
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3232
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3203
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3046
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3396
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3397
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4039
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4388 (message types & opts)
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4578
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4702
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6926 (message types & opts 151-157)
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7724 (message types only, status codes for opt 151 unimplemented)
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8910