Dhcp client issue

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Thu Jan 28 21:27:35 UTC 2010


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" ;

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