On 10/31/22 22:15, Simon Kelley wrote:
On 27/10/2022 18:02, Rich Otero wrote:
Simon,
dhcp-host=set:wierd,<MAC address of my cellphone>,192.168.6.7
Are you sure that this is correct? According to the manual, the
signature of dhcp-host is this:
--dhcp-host=[<hwaddr>][,id:<client_id>|*][,set:<tag>][,tag:<tag>][,<ipaddr>][,<hostname>][,<lease_time>][,ignore]
The relevant bit: <hwaddr>,set:<tag>,<ipaddr>
But your example is: set:<tag>,<hwaddr>,<ipaddr>
The parser for dhcp-host accepts the various data types in any order and
analyses the comma-delimited strings with various heuristics to work out
what it's seeing. This seemed like a great idea at the time, but if I
could communicate with 2002-Simon I'd probably tell him to find another
way. There have been bugs when the heuristics were not as clever as they
should have been, and confusion when they are a bit too clever. This is
compounded by the fact that it's very difficult to tell that the parser
has silently treated your MAC address as a hostname because you
substituted an o for 0 or something similar.
Too late now, it is what it is.
I also always wonderd about this, is one syntax less error prone then an
other?
--
John Doe
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