Great! I often wondered about that!
Mike

On 29 Oct 2010, at 23:13, Michael Heimpold wrote:

> Currently, the hostname is sent in a DHCP request only if configured 
> explicitely.
> 
> Changing this behaviour so that the hostname is sent per default has the 
> advantage
> that e.g. a Fritz!Box (acting as DHCP server) shows the device running OpenWRT
> with it's hostname in the network overview.
> 
> To prevent sending a hostname at all (and to be backwards compatible) the
> configuration option can be set to "none".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Heimpold <[email protected]>
> 
> Index: package/base-files/files/lib/network/config.sh
> ===================================================================
> --- package/base-files/files/lib/network/config.sh    (Revision 23604)
> +++ package/base-files/files/lib/network/config.sh    (Arbeitskopie)
> @@ -355,6 +355,8 @@
> 
>                       [ -z "$ipaddr" ] || \
>                               $DEBUG ifconfig "$iface" "$ipaddr" 
> ${netmask:+netmask "$netmask"}
> +                     [ -n "$hostname" ] || hostname=$(uci -q get 
> syst...@system[0].hostname)
> +                     [ "$hostname" = "none" ] && hostname=""
> 
>                       # don't stay running in background if dhcp is not the 
> main proto on the interface (e.g. when using pptp)
>                       local dhcpopts
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