Help: MAC Address case-sensitive
Sten Carlsen
stenc at s-carlsen.dk
Mon Nov 5 10:15:42 UTC 2012
I just took a look at my config, I use lower case for some hosts and
upper case for some other hosts.
I also have a lot of subclasses,matching on hardware, I use both cases
there.
They all work, so I can confirm that in those two cases the case does
not matter.
Version is 4.1.0p1 (redhat version).
On 05/11/12 7:10, Glenn Satchell wrote:
> Hi Eric
>
> This is from the dhcpd.conf man page:
>
> hardware hardware-type hardware-address;
>
> In order for a BOOTP client to be recognized, its network
> hardware address must be declared using a hardware clause
> in the host statement. hardware-type must be the name of
> a physical hardware interface type. Currently, only the
> ethernet and token-ring types are recognized, although
> support for a fddi hardware type (and others) would also
> be desirable. The hardware-address should be a set of
> hexadecimal octets (numbers from 0 through ff) separated
> by colons. The hardware statement may also be used for
> DHCP clients.
>
> It says hexadecimal octets (numbers from 0 through ff), which to me
> implies using lower case.
>
> However, looking at the source in common/parse.c leads us eventually to
> parse_hardware_param() which calls convert_num() which handles the case
> for both lower and upper case. So it would appear that you should be able
> to use upper, lower or a mix of cases for the mac address.
>
> regards,
> -glenn
>
> On Mon, November 5, 2012 4:51 pm, Lee Eric wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here's my config.
>>
>> host example {
>> hardware ethernet E4:1F:13:B3:96:FA;
>> fixed-address 10.33.8.105;
>> }
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Staci Page <danalmmp79437 at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
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Sten Carlsen
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