From: Ted Lemon <source@isc.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:01:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Update documentation of client identifier representation.
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Update documentation of client identifier representation.
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diff --git a/server/dhcpd.leases.5 b/server/dhcpd.leases.5
index c871830d6..98057a53c 100644
--- a/server/dhcpd.leases.5
+++ b/server/dhcpd.leases.5
@@ -144,11 +144,11 @@ send one.   Client identifiers are normally an ARP type (1 for
 ethernet) followed by the MAC address, just like in the \fBhardware\fI
 statement, but this is not required.
 .PP
-The client identifier is normally recorded as a series of hexadecimal
-octets, seperated by colons.  Some DHCP clients can be configured to
-send a text string as a client identifier, in which case the client
-identifier is stored as a quoted string rather than a list of
-hexadecimal octets.
+The client identifier is recorded as a colon-seperated hexadecimal
+list or as a quoted string.   If it is recorded as a quoted string and
+it contains one or more non-printable characters, those characters are
+represented as octal escapes - a backslash character followed by three
+octal digits.
 .PP
 .B client-hostname "\fIhostname\fB";\fR
 .PP