Re: DHCP client ID in svn3846

[Neal Becker <ndbecker2 gmail com>]

On Wednesday 13 August 2008, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 08:46 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> > I'm testing NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.11.svn3846.fc9.x86_64.
> >
> > I'm guessing that the option
> > DHCP client ID
> > in editing auto ethernet/IPv4 Settings should set DHCP_HOSTNAME?  It
> > doesn't (as shown in /var/run/nm-dhclient-eth0.conf)
> >
> > Also, I _do_ have DHCP_HOSTNAME set in
> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, but this seems to be ignored.
>
> Unfortunately dhcp client id and dhcp hostname are actually two
> different things.  I'll check about the DHCP_HOSTNAME thing; if that's
> not working it's a bug.
>
> Dan

If they are 2 different things, then what is the preferred method to set 
DHCP_HOSTNAME?  Seems reasonable to add it to the NM edit gui.

BTW, what is DHCP client ID then?