conditional sentences

[Glenn Satchell]

>Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:50:27 +0200
>From: muzzol <muzzol at gmail.com>
>To: dhcp-users at isc.org
>Subject: Re: conditional sentences
>
>> This is from the dhcp-options manual page.
>>
>>      option vendor-class-identifier string;
>>
>>        This option is used by some DHCP clients to  identify  the
>>        vendor  type  and  possibly  the  configuration  of a DHCP
>>        client.  The information is a string of bytes  whose  con-
>>        tents  are specific to the vendor and are not specified in
>>        a standard.   To see what vendor class identifier  clients
>>        are  sending,  you  can  write  the following in your DHCP
>>        server configuration file:
>>
>>        set vendor-string = option vendor-class-identifier;
>>
>>        This will result in all entries in the DHCP  server  lease
>>        database   file   for   clients  that  sent  vendor-class-
>>        identifier options having a set statement that looks some-
>>        thing like this:
>>
>>        set vendor-string = "SUNW.Ultra-5_10";
>>
>> and you can use it like this. "MSFT 5.0" is returned by windows 2000
>> and XP.
>>
>is there any list of vendor-string values anywhere?

Not that I am aware of. You can use the 'set' command above to see what
your clients return though.

These are some I found in a very quick google:

Microsoft - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;266675
MSFT 5.0 - Windows 2000 and XP
MSFT 98 - Windows 98 and ME

PXEClient - system booting using PXE

and these werew from my simple tests:

Fedora Core 2 - not set
Solaris - SUNW.model where model varies with each model

regards,
-glenn
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