Re-activate current lease on DHCPDISCOVER

Drew Weaver drew.weaver at thenap.com
Fri Oct 10 13:13:29 UTC 2008


> And now for the ugly hacks department. I haven't tried this but what if
> you assigned a client-id to the PXE clients? For example,
>
> class "PXE" {
>     match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) =
> "PXEClient";
>
>     # here is the ugly hack
>     option dhcp-client-identifier concat(01, hardware);
> }
>
> regards,
>That's the default for the Microsoft clients, but there's nothing
>to stop a given client setting it to any random string.
>
>regards,

Wouldn't there be some way using the example above to simply make all of the client identifiers the MAC address?

-Drew







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