What does 'add "classname"' really do?

[David Forrest]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Dario Aguilar wrote:

> Hi, I have a doubt.. maybe it´s a stupid question but why you need to add
> "1:" before the mac address when it is defined as a subclass? Some similar
> thing happends to me with circuit-ID definition that I need to remove the
> first 2 octects to make it match well.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dario Aguilar.


Because you are matching the hardware..

ARM:
"The hardware operator returns a data string whose first element is the 
type of the network interface indicated in packet being considered. and 
whose subsequent elements are client's link-layer address."

The 1 shows it is an Ethernet interface.

Dave


>>
>> class "mammals" {
>>   match hardware;
>> }


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David Forrest
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