Officially, the client identifier should be staring with 1 if you follow it up with the mac address, like "1:YO:UR:_M:AC:AD:DR". That's because dhcp3 treats the whole thing as an opaque byte sequence, whereas http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2132#section-9.14 says the first byte should state what kind of identifier is used, with 1 for Ethernet MAC addresses according to http://www.iana.org/assignments/arp-parameters parameter "Hardware Type (hrd)". You may also use 0 followed by any arbitrary byte sequence you want. I think this should work:
send dhcp-client-identifier "\0My identifier name" although I don't have my Ubuntu running right now to test it. I'd also consider all this a kind of bug in the Fritz!Box, as it should in my opinion derive a client identifier from the sender's mac address if none was specified, and assign a host name in any case. I wrote a message to AVM about it on 2008-05-23 using the web form http://www.avm.de/de/Service/Service-Portale/Service- Portal/Ihre_Meinung/Feedback.php?portal=FRITZ!Box_Fon_WLAN_7170 and my message was forwarded to the tech guys on 2008-05-26. As improvement requests don't seem to get a ticket at AVM, that information is all I have to track it, but if you want to write them as well, mentioning those references might help them realize it's the same issue and avoid redundant work. -- Computer name is not recognized by DHCP of FRITZ!Box https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/115426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
