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| author | Ted Lemon <source@isc.org> | 2001-05-04 17:15:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Ted Lemon <source@isc.org> | 2001-05-04 17:15:17 +0000 |
| commit | cb7cfe5cb72a27d803396fea67f28ef93ef787c2 (patch) | |
| tree | 6704418d2f634891838dd7317db9c2f3f25b2ef3 /common/dhcp-options.5 | |
| parent | 33d1e366dbd66ea5d0753d0d29020a226236370d (diff) | |
| download | isc-dhcp-cb7cfe5cb72a27d803396fea67f28ef93ef787c2.tar.gz | |
Mention that an ASCII DHCP client identifier may include a leading NUL.
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diff --git a/common/dhcp-options.5 b/common/dhcp-options.5 index ef6dddbe..2a8c00cf 100644 --- a/common/dhcp-options.5 +++ b/common/dhcp-options.5 @@ -204,6 +204,18 @@ sending TCP segments. The minimum value is 1. This option can be used to specify the a DHCP client identifier in a host declaration, so that dhcpd can find the host record by matching against the client identifier. +.PP +Please be aware that some DHCP clients, when configured with client +identifiers that are ASCII text, will prepend a zero to the ASCII +text. So you may need to write: +.nf + + option dhcp-client-identifier "\\0foo"; + +rather than: + + option dhcp-client-identifier "foo"; +.fi .RE .PP .B option \fBdhcp-max-message-size\fR \fIuint16\fR\fB;\fR |