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dhcp unknown vendor class

From: "Mark Flodman" <markf@selectlegal.co.uk>
Subject: Re: DHCP unknown vendor class error repeated 100's of times
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 15:51:38 +0100
References: <2vn0gtsan5ehpa1uccma3hq44i8vhfarfi@4ax.com>
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"Roger Cornelius" <racpop@tenzing.org> wrote in message
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> Gary Quiring wrote:
> >
> > I'm running SCO 506 without the rs506a patch.  The DHCP server went
> > nuts this weekend with "ping sendto failed messages" in syslog.  Those
> > errors have stopped, but the "unknown vendor class" error continues.
> >
> > The DHCP server is working fine, I'm just curious what the vendor
> > error means and can I narrow down what is causing it?
>
> [...]
>
> >May 14 17:49:12 emco11 dhcpd[29665]: Unknown vendor class
0x4d534654203938
>
> If you convert the mentioned vendor class into ASCII, you'll get "MSFT
> 98".  Add the following to /etc/dhcpd.conf and the messages will stop.
>
> vendor_class "MSFT 98" {
> comment to shut dhcpd up
> }
> --
> Roger Cornelius        racpop@tenzing.org

Thanks Roger easy when you know how isnt it ;-)

Trevor Richens

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