<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Glen,<div><br></div><div>Don't mean to hijack the thread but...</div><div><br></div><div>Is that right? I did not know that if you simply do not enclose the match text in quotes that it would match binary info!! That de-screws something that I have been struggling with! Some option 82 from some manufacturers is binary, others it is ASCII. If I simply can match in this manner ... </div><div><br></div><div>Does this work for ASCII as well or only binary?<br><br>hmmm - what to do if the text that the manufacturer sends is something like: VLAN 1 Port 4<br><div id="e0348634-667e-4419-a4bb-c159618b4b92"><span name="x"></span></div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><br><br>These can all be re-written without the binary-to-ascii and be much clearer:<br><br>match if substring(option agent.remote-id, 2, 7)) = 84:78:ac:84:e5:80<br> and hardware = 1:0:14:2d:40:f:15<br> and substring(option agent.circuit-id, 5, 1)) = e;<br></blockquote></div></div></body></html>