Re: bin/52403: dhclient program doesn't send dhcp-client-identifier set in /etc/dhclient.conf

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/52403; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/52403: dhclient program doesn't send dhcp-client-identifier
 set in /etc/dhclient.conf
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 14:40:28 +0300

 On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 17:30:01 +0000, m.viey%wanadoo.fr@localhost wrote:
 
 > the client identifier 0:0xff2259a08800010001203a470000252259a088
 > seems to be very long and I think it's a part of the problem. If I
 > compare with the transaction from another dhcp request from another
 > device (a router on openwrt)this identifier is shorter:
 
 Stupid question: are you sure you are using dhclient?
 
 NetBSD by default uses dhcpcd(8) now.  You need to make specific
 configuration steps to use dhclient(8).  The client id you see is
 RFC4361 DUID id, which is what dhcpcd(8) uses by default.
 
 -uwe