how is the client identifer used in other DHCP servers.
Simon Kelley
simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Thu Mar 23 07:39:19 UTC 2006
David W. Hankins wrote:
>>How do other DHCP servers react to option 61, type 0?
>
>
> As far as I am aware, in the exact same way. I think all the server
> manufacturers know that doing anything different would probably result
> in incompatible and broken behaviours.
>
> At least I hope they do.
>
Dnsmasq treats client-ids as opaque blobs, with a single exception that
acknowledges the "zero type is string" convention. If a client-id starts
with a zero, then an attempt is made to match against any configured ids
both with and without the zero. So a configuration option like this:
dhcp-host=id:"fred",1.2.3.4
will match (and assign a fixed address to) both client-id
'f' 'r' 'e' 'd'
and
'/0' 'f' 'r' 'e' 'd'
Cheers,
Simon.
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