log line question

[Bruce Hudson]

> Hopefully this is painfully simple, but I couldn't find the answer
> anywhere. I'm working on parsing dhcpd logs into MySQL in realtime.
> 
> I'm seeing lines like:
> dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy) from
> 00:11:22:33:44:55 via zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz
> 
> What is the (yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy) IP address?

    It appears to be the DHCP Server Identifier from the request so
it should be the IP address of your DHCP server. The server should
ignore any that do not match.
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