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authorDarren Tucker <dtucker@cvs.openbsd.org>2020-04-17 06:24:29 +0000
committerDarren Tucker <dtucker@cvs.openbsd.org>2020-04-17 06:24:29 +0000
commit791cd312b8582b15abd5bcb057898fac9f33eaec (patch)
tree746a8f225fcbc9fe4f9e7fcf2cc63c79abd72a1c /usr.sbin
parent1fbf3c812acf5ce5cdd01c43b2caf97fac990599 (diff)
Document using /etc/ethers to look up ethernet addresses. ok krw@,
wordsmithing jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf.510
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf.5 b/usr.sbin/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf.5
index e5f3ccb28d1..92207278981 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf.5
+++ b/usr.sbin/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: dhcpd.conf.5,v 1.24 2018/07/03 12:51:44 krw Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: dhcpd.conf.5,v 1.25 2020/04/17 06:24:28 dtucker Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1998, 1999
.\" The Internet Software Consortium. All rights reserved.
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
.\" see ``http://www.isc.org/isc''. To learn more about Vixie
.\" Enterprises, see ``http://www.vix.com''.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 3 2018 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 17 2020 $
.Dt DHCPD.CONF 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -571,8 +571,10 @@ although support for DHCP-over-IPsec virtual interface type
is provided.
The
.Ar hardware-address
-should be a set of hexadecimal octets (numbers from 0 through ff)
-separated by colons.
+should be a set of colon-separated hexadecimal octets (0-ff)
+or a hostname that can be looked up in
+.Xr ethers 5
+when the configuration is read.
The
.Ic hardware
statement may also be used for DHCP clients.