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 15:54:48 +0300

 On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 12:45:00 +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 
 >  On Jul 14,  5:30pm, m.viey%wanadoo.fr@localhost (m.viey%wanadoo.fr@localhost) wrote:
 >  -- Subject: bin/52403: dhclient program doesn't send dhcp-client-identifier s
 >  
 >  | send dhcp-client-identifier "\0";
 >  
 >  The example in the dhclient.conf man page shows the client identifier to
 >  be entered like an array of hex bytes:
 >  
 >      send dhcp-client-identifier 1:0:a0:24:ab:fb:9c;
 
 dhcp-options(5) is the authoritative reference for that and it shows
 both, using client identifier as an example, incidentally:
 
        The string data type specifies either an NVT ASCII string enclosed in
        double quotes, or a series of octets specified in hexadecimal,
        separated by colons.   For example:
          option dhcp-client-identifier "CLIENT-FOO";
        or
          option dhcp-client-identifier 43:4c:49:45:54:2d:46:4f:4f;
 
 -uwe