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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2019-03-13 16:01:06 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2019-03-14 15:13:33 +0100
commitfba10579f1abb4a0f0a27ebb822bcfda72c9b22e (patch)
tree637facc680c5b020ef331855f792b30e60b4e9d4
parent957848db227be6f6878fd4df57fccfbec5219e00 (diff)
downloadsystemd-fba10579f1abb4a0f0a27ebb822bcfda72c9b22e.tar.gz
man: document that Anonymize=yes makes DHCP leases grow in size
Fixes: #11551
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.network.xml5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.network.xml b/man/systemd.network.xml
index b06785046d..5a83314332 100644
--- a/man/systemd.network.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.network.xml
@@ -1263,6 +1263,11 @@
<varname>UseRoutes=</varname>, <varname>SendHostname=</varname>,
<varname>UseMTU=</varname>, <varname>VendorClassIdentifier=</varname>,
<varname>UseTimezone=</varname>.</para>
+
+ <para>With this option enabled DHCP requests will mimic those generated by Microsoft Windows, in
+ order to reduce the ability to fingerprint and recognize installations. This means DHCP request
+ sizes will grow and lease data will be more comprehensive than normally, though most of the
+ requested data is not actually used.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>