[Dnsmasq-discuss] Small Bug with MAC Wildcards ?

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Thu Sep 18 14:01:11 BST 2008


Peter Katzmann wrote:
> Hello,
> i currently made a mistake in my dnsmasq conf file.
> Setting
> dhcp-host=00:12:20:21:bd:*:*:ip,net:xxx
> was accepted without complaints about the malformed mac address
> I had 7 parameters instead of the 6
> 

There's nothing that says a MAC address has to be 6 bytes. Firewire MAC
addresses are 8 bytes, and the DHCP packet format has space for up to 16
bytes.


Cheers,

Simon.



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