changeset 2227:2ceab9da867e draft

Clarify which DHCP protocol vendor and user class options affect.
author Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>
date Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:01:37 +0000
parents d890d1db44ae
children 4c295fa3c929
files dhcpcd.8.in dhcpcd.conf.5.in
diffstat 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/dhcpcd.8.in	Sat Jan 18 14:49:29 2014 +0000
+++ b/dhcpcd.8.in	Sat Jan 18 15:01:37 2014 +0000
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd January 8, 2014
+.Dd January 18, 2014
 .Dt DHCPCD 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@
 .Ar clientid
 of the hardware family and the hardware address.
 .It Fl i , Fl Fl vendorclassid Ar vendorclassid
-Override the
+Override the DHCPv4
 .Ar vendorclassid
 field sent.
 The default is
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@
 start the IPv4LL process after the timeout and then wait a little longer
 before really timing out.
 .It Fl u , Fl Fl userclass Ar class
-Tags the DHCP message with the userclass
+Tags the DHCPv4 message with the userclass
 .Ar class .
 DHCP servers use this to give members of the class DHCP options other than the
 default, without having to know things like hardware address or hostname.
--- a/dhcpcd.conf.5.in	Sat Jan 18 14:49:29 2014 +0000
+++ b/dhcpcd.conf.5.in	Sat Jan 18 15:01:37 2014 +0000
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@
 start the IPv4LL process after the timeout and then wait a little longer
 before really timing out.
 .It Ic userclass Ar string
-Tag the DHCP messages with the userclass.
+Tag the DHCPv4 messages with the userclass.
 You can specify more than one.
 .It Ic vendor Ar code , Ns Ar value
 Add an encapsulated vendor option.
@@ -454,6 +454,8 @@
 Set un-encapsulated vendor option to hello world.
 .D1 vendor ,"hello world"
 .It Ic vendorclassid Ar string
+Set the DHCP Vendor Class.
+DHCPv6 has it's own option as shown below.
 The default is
 dhcpcd-<version>:<os>:<machine>:<platform>.
 For example
@@ -462,7 +464,7 @@
 Some badly configured DHCP servers reject unknown vendorclassids.
 To work around it, try and impersonate Windows by using the MSFT vendorclassid.
 .It Ic vendclass Ar en Ar data
-Add the Vendor Indetifying Vendor Class with the IANA assigned Enterprise
+Add the DHCPv6 Vendor Indetifying Vendor Class with the IANA assigned Enterprise
 Number
 .Ar en
 with the