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authorRoy Marples <roy@marples.name>2008-11-17 17:25:54 +0000
committerRoy Marples <roy@marples.name>2008-11-17 17:25:54 +0000
commitc989b02361577d2227094cd396c760c1df39e697 (patch)
tree26f80acaa0af8a0b830dc9983a69681276faf0bf /dhcpcd.8.in
parent228181a8118f4faed4f67ead567bcf2e8696cf42 (diff)
downloaddhcpcd-c989b02361577d2227094cd396c760c1df39e697.tar.xz
We no longer send a ClientID by default. This is so we now mirror the kernel DHCP client and can re-use its lease by default. To retain the old behaviour, simply add clientid to dhcpcd.conf.
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diff --git a/dhcpcd.8.in b/dhcpcd.8.in
index 2375933b..13fd07e2 100644
--- a/dhcpcd.8.in
+++ b/dhcpcd.8.in
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd October 07, 2008
+.Dd November 17, 2008
.Dt DHCPCD 8 SMM
.Sh NAME
.Nm dhcpcd
@@ -351,9 +351,11 @@ itself never does any DNS updates.
encodes the FQDN hostname as specified in
.Li RFC1035 .
.It Fl I , -clientid Ar clientid
-Change the default clientid sent from the interface hardware address.
+Send the
+.Ar clientid .
If the string is of the format 01:02:03 then it is encoded as hex.
-If not set then none is sent.
+For interfaces whose hardware address is longer than 8 bytes we send a default
+clientid of the hardware family and the hardware address.
.El
.Ss Restriciting behaviour
.Nm
@@ -474,8 +476,4 @@ does not wait for commands to complete when sending them to the master
.Nm
process.
.Pp
-One of the goals for one instance managing multiple interfaces is more
-intelligent route and configuration management.
-This has not yet been done.
-.Pp
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