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Not that I know. My pfSense firewall doesn't have it (IIRC), so my guess would be that poorly maintained router boxes in a hotel basement definitely don't have it.

I'm not sure if the various DHCP clients communicate this properly to the OS or browser even (I wouldn't know how to query for it on Linux)



If you're using NetworkManager you can get DHCP options by being mildly angry at the D-Bus API:

    $ python3
    >>> import dbus
    >>> bus = dbus.SystemBus()
    >>> nm = bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager", "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager")
    >>> conn = bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager", nm.Get("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager", "PrimaryConnection", dbus_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties"))
    >>> dhcp = bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager", conn.Get("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Connection.Active", "Dhcp4Config", dbus_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties"))
    >>> options = dhcp.Get("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.DHCP4Config", "Options", dbus_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties")
    >>> str(options["subnet_mask"])
    '255.255.255.240'
I guess you can parse /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.*.leases otherwise?




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