omshell format error in hardware-address output

[Glenn Satchell]

Hi Matthias,

I think this is dhcpd trying to be clever about auto-printing ascii or
binary strings in a readable way. Your new MAC address is all ascii
characters... I don't think there is a way to get the binary only
format, unless you hack the source code.

rewgards,
-glenn

>Subject: omshell format error in hardware-address output 
>Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:53:40 +0100
>From: "Matthias Stenke" <Matthias.Stenke at hrz.uni-giessen.de>
>To: <dhcp-users at isc.org>
>
> We operate dhcpd as a component of a web authentication system for about
> 2000 users and use omshell for performance reasons to get the MAC/IP
> pair for a specific client (we have short lease times and parsing the
> dhcpd.leases simply takes too much time in our case). 
> 
>  
> 
> I have just encountered a strange behavior of omshell (Version 3.0.7)
> with one of the clients which uses a locally set mac address
> (66:55:44:33:60:40). The lease data which is print out is wrong
> formatted: The hardware-address should be printed out in the usual
> format as 66:55:44:33:60:40, but omshell prints out "fUD3`@" (including
> the quotes). Obviously the six bytes of the hardware address are
> converted to ASCII characters and quoted. I have seen this so far only
> with this specific mac address.
> 
>  
> 
> I hope someone can take a look at this. Many thanks in advance!
> 
>  
> 
> Here is the input/output of omshell:
> 
>  
> 
> Input:
> 
> connect
> 
> new "lease"
> 
> set ip-address = <client ip>
> 
> open
> 
>  
> 
> omshell output:
> 
>  
> 
> ip-address = <deleted>
> 
> state = 00:00:00:02
> 
> dhcp-client-identifier = 01:66:55:44:33:60:40
> 
> client-hostname = "DUMMY"
> 
> subnet = 00:00:00:07
> 
> pool = 00:00:00:08
> 
> hardware-address = "fUD3`@"
> 
> hardware-type = 00:00:00:01
> 
> ends = 49:7f:87:17
> 
> starts = 49:7f:86:63
> 
> tstp = 49:7f:87:71
> 
> tsfp = 49:7f:87:71
> 
> atsfp = 49:7f:87:71
> 
> cltt = 49:7f:86:63
> 
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> Best regards,
> 
>  
> 
> Matthias
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