using option 82 to assign a static ip-address -- solved

Simon Hobson dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Mon Dec 17 16:26:00 UTC 2012


Nico De Ranter wrote:
> I was confused by the extra '1' that gets added at the front for some of the fields.

It's not "an extra 1", it's part of the field value - assuming you mean when referring to hardware address (aka MAC address).

The one is the type specifier for Ethernet. There is a separate code for Token Ring, not sure if anything else is defined.

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