<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'><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: initial;"></blockquote><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">So the best solution is to convert everything to binary? </font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">And, even tho the inbound DHCP packet contains actual ASCII text (from some manufacturers) DHCP is smart enough to what convert the ASCII to binary before comparison? </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">So my config would contain this: 56:4C:41:4E:20:31:20:50:6F:72:66:20:34 and the packet actually contains ASCII: </font><font size="2">"VLAN 1 Port 4" and this would match?</font><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: initial;"><br>So to match something like VLAN 1 Port 4, you could use the string "VLAN 1<br>Port 4" or encode each character in hex<br>56:4C:41:4E:20:31:20:50:6F:72:66:20:34<br><br>Try man ascii to give you conversion tables.<br></blockquote></div></div></body></html>