duid and dhcpd6.client-id
Glenn Satchell
glenn.satchell at uniq.com.au
Mon Mar 31 10:01:40 UTC 2014
In the dhcp-options man page it is defined as
option dhcp6.client-id string;
and in the dhcp-eval man page it defines what a string looks like
string
A string, enclosed in quotes, may be specified as a data
expression, and returns the text between the quotes,
encoded in ASCII. The backslash ('\') character is
treated specially, as in C programming: '\t' means TAB,
'\r' means carriage return, '\n' means newline, and '\b'
means bell. Any octal value can be specified with
'\nnn', where nnn is any positive octal number less than
0400. Any hexadecimal value can be specified with '\xnn',
where nn is any positive hexadecimal number less than or
equal to 0xff.
colon-separated hexadecimal list
A list of hexadecimal octet values, separated by colons,
may be specified as a data expression.
So you can specify a string in the two ways you have seen, text enclosed
in quotes, using \nnn as a way to represent octal caharcters that are not
printable ascii characters, eg null and so on. Alternatively pairs of
hexadecimal chars separated by colons, but with no quotes.
I believe the print function inside dhcpd will print strings with octal
escaps if it sees a few ascii characters in the string, otherwise it uses
the colon format.
For the config file either form can be used.
regards,
-glenn
On Mon, March 31, 2014 6:47 pm, Andreas Burger wrote:
> hi there,
>
> i try to figure out how i have to write the dhcpd6.client-id
> in the dhcpd6.conf
>
>
> clientsystems are linux, macosx and windows7
>
> i tested mostly under linux.
>
> in the dhclient6.conf i tested with id in form xx:xx:xx....
> cleartext and \00\001\.... form
>
> in the dhcpd6.lease on the server i often end with ia-na entrys
> which heave sort of a prefix:
>
> \316o\334~\000\001....
>
> even if i do add literally the entry i see in the leasefile
> to the clientconfig the client does not get the address set in the
> serverconfig.
>
> my goal is to give fixed addresses, or at least, only give adresses to
> known hosts.
>
> is there any docuemntation about how theses ids are handled?
>
> regards
> andreas
>
>
>
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