<div dir="ltr">I have recently started using the circuit to assign ip addresses. looking at all of the examples online i don't see an issue that I had with the string itself.  It starts with a 0x01, and then it has the length of the string in the next byte, followed by the circuit id, like this:<div><br></div><div>





<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";background-color:rgb(254,244,156)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>host hostnum1000019 {</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";background-color:rgb(254,244,156)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">        </span>host-identifier option agent.circuit-id </span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(188,50,28)">"\x01\x20myrelayswitchnamehere:Ethernet17"</span><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">;</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";background-color:rgb(254,244,156)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">        </span>fixed-address 192.168.100.219;</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";background-color:rgb(254,244,156)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>}</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";background-color:rgb(254,244,156);min-height:16px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";background-color:rgb(254,244,156)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>host hostnum1000020 {</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";background-color:rgb(254,244,156)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">        </span>host-identifier option agent.circuit-id </span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(188,50,28)">"\x01\x20myrelayswitchnamehere:Ethernet18"</span><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">;</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";background-color:rgb(254,244,156)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">        </span>fixed-address 192.168.100.220;</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";background-color:rgb(254,244,156)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>}</span></p><div><br></div><div>this configuration here functions using isc dhcpd version 4.2.5.  i realize the leading two characters are part of the protocol, but I didn't expect to have to encode them in my host-identifier string.  Since I don't see these extra characters in any examples, is there something not set right here?</div><div><br></div><div>-g</div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Greg Fausak<br><br></div></div></div>