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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>We operate
dhcpd as a component of a web authentication system for about 2000 users and
use omshell for performance reasons to get the MAC/IP pair for a specific
client (we have short lease times and parsing the dhcpd.leases simply takes too
much time in our case). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>I have just
encountered a strange behavior of omshell (Version 3.0.7) with one of the
clients which uses a locally set mac address (</span><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-family:Consolas'>66:55:44:33:60:40)</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:Consolas'>. The lease data which is print out is wrong
formatted: The hardware-address should be printed out in the usual format as </span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>66:55:44:33:60:40, but omshell prints
out "fUD3`@" (including the quotes). Obviously the six bytes of the hardware
address are converted to ASCII characters and quoted. I have seen this so far only
with this specific mac address.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>I hope someone
can take a look at this. Many thanks in advance!</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>Here is the input/output
of omshell:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>Input:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>connect<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>new “lease”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>set ip-address
= <client ip><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>open<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>omshell
output:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>ip-address = <deleted><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>state =
00:00:00:02<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>dhcp-client-identifier
= 01:66:55:44:33:60:40<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>client-hostname
= "DUMMY"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>subnet =
00:00:00:07<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>pool =
00:00:00:08<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>hardware-address
= "fUD3`@"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>hardware-type
= 00:00:00:01<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>ends =
49:7f:87:17<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>starts =
49:7f:86:63<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>tstp =
49:7f:87:71<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>tsfp =
49:7f:87:71<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>atsfp =
49:7f:87:71<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>cltt =
49:7f:86:63<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'>Matthias<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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