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Buffalo WLAE-AG300N DHCP client is buggy and adds a NULL character to the host name.

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/13

Buffalo WLAE-AG300N is one of those buggy DHCP clients… Even running firmware Ver.1.85 (R1.05/B1.00)), it gets the length of the DHCP host name wrong so adds a bogus NULL byte to that name.

@Buffalo: please fix this.

The DHCP client options are of structure Type/Length/Value so a client is supposed to set the length of the hostname to exactly the number of characters.
However there exist buggy clients that either send a length of 1 more and a \00 at the end of the name, or send a fixed length and pad it with \00 as necessary.

Source: DHCP server: Odd active hostname behaviour: some views have null character at the end, some don’t. – MikroTik RouterOS

Fromt a packet capture:

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Posted in Access Points, Buffalo, Hardware, Internet, MikroTik, Network-and-equipment, Power User, routers, WinBox | Leave a Comment »