[BusyBox] udhcp: FQDN within DHCP requests

[Russ Dill]

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 04:13, Stephan Linz wrote:
> Hi Russ Dill,
> Hi busybox-list,
> Hi dhcp-client-list,
> 
> 
> sorry for this ugly english, but it's not my native language.
> 
> I'm really newbie at udhcp and DHCP in general. Up to now I've used udhcp 
> client as a simple bootp requester inside of a customer embedded system. But 
> now our cudtomer wishes to use full DHCP. Full is not correct, because at the 
> embedded system we put in the FQDN as network configuration (and use it). In 
> this case our customer is claim to embed the FQN into all DHCP request to 
> note the DHCP server about own FQDN. Then the DHCP Server have to update the 
> DNS server.
> 
> Our customer have said: It would be Windows like. I think it's not RFC 
> conform, isn't it? I belief only the MAC address is valid inside of DHCP 
> resquests.
> 
> If not so here my questions: Where could I found more informations about such 
> a strategy. Is it possible to make such DHCP requests with current version of 
> udhcp? How and where can I change the sources of udhcp to do that.
> 
> 
> Thank you in advance
> and best regards

By default,  the MAC address is on the ethernet frame of every packet,
as well as in the clientid field. A hostname can be added with -H:

  -H, --hostname=HOSTNAME         Client hostname

-- 
Russ Dill <Russ.Dill at asu.edu>