Subject: Re: dhclient - obtain hostname
To: MLH <MLH@goathill.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/17/2002 22:06:38
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:09:00AM +0000, MLH wrote:
> I can't tell - if it's null. I see nothing in the tcpdump (using
> -X option to print hex/ascii) that looks like a hostname.
> 
> hops:1 xid:0xd5e393a Y:{my ip} S:{dhcp/bootpserver ip} G:{gateway ip} [|bootp]

Try with tcpdump -s 1500. tcpdump knows how interpret dhcp packets,
but it needs to capture it complete.

> 
> If it's not sending host-name, why doesn't 'require host-name'
> prevent it from obtaining a lease?

I'm not sure how it is supposed to work. Maybe it tries to do with what it
got ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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