Philip A. Prindeville wrote: > On 01/28/2010 01:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> >>> Philip A. Prindeville wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> but when I try this, I get: >>>> >>>> >>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf line 4: expecting string or hexadecimal data. >>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: #011send dhcp-client-identifier hardware; >>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: ^ >>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf line 4: expecting a statement. >>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: #011send dhcp-client-identifier hardware; >>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: ^ >>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf line 5: semicolon expected. >>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: >>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: ^ >>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf line 5: unterminated interface declaration. >>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: >>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: ^ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> So it's not clear to me from the manual where you can have a dynamic >>>> expression, and where you're required to have a literal. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> If I have time later in the day I'll see if I can be helpful. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> I could not get back to sleep.... >> >> Even though I didn't try the following as of yet, maybe you could? >> >> To make it easy to parse...maybe they are expecting a string to be >> enclosed in quotes. Have you tried.... >> >> send dhcp-client-identifier "hardware" ; >> >> >> > > Hardware is a keyword that evaluates to the MAC address of the interface > the packet is being sent on: > > hardware > > The hardware operator returns a data string whose first element is > the type of network interface indicated in packet being considered, > and whose subsequent elements are client’s link-layer address. [...] > > > as I mentioned. The problem being that it's accessible in some contexts, but not this one, apparently. > > So I don't want "hardware" as the string, I want: > > 01:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX > > where XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX is the MAC address of eth0 (or whatever). > > Sorry if I didn't make that clear. > > No, it was finally clear..... I just had some weird thought that 01:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX and hardware are both "strings" and someone wrote a lousy parser and would key off of "hardware" to do the right thing.... It was 5AM or there abouts when I wrote it...and only got up to give one of my cats water..... :-( We'll see what the light of day brings.... -- Life is like an analogy.
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