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> I do that so that I can get the dynamic DNS to pick up the name
> of the Linux system and insert it into the DNS. If dhcpd is interpreting
> that field to indicate that this is a Microsoft box, what's going to
> break when it's wrong?
The DHCP server looks for the option, and then looks in the option to
see if the last character is null. That tells it that it's a
Microsoft client. Unless your linux client is broken, it will not
send a NUL terminator, and so won't be detected as a Windows client.
_MelloN_
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