[Dnsmasq-discuss] diskless boot with dnsmasq?

Dan Stromberg strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu
Sun, 13 Feb 2005 17:34:29 -0800


I've been fiddling with LTSP on a tiny, $150 thin client box that I got
from someone in Hong Kong.

My initial experiments were with ISC dhcpd, with which I've used the
config file that appears at the bottom of this message.

However, I'd like to use my Linksys WRT54G as my DHCP server, and the
linux distribution I currently have on my Linksys, OpenWRT, has a
precompiled mipsel+uClibc dnsmasq binary, so I'd like to look into
switching to dnsmasq.

So my question is "Does dnsmasq support the following sorts of things for
diskless booting with PXE"?

Thanks!


ddns-update-style            none;
default-lease-time           21600;
max-lease-time               21600;
option subnet-mask           255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address     192.168.1.255;
option routers               192.168.1.100;
option domain-name-servers   192.168.1.100;
option domain-name           "ltsp";
option root-path             "192.168.1.100:/opt/ltsp/i386";
option option-128 code 128 = string;
option option-129 code 129 = text;
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
    use-host-decl-names      on;
    option log-servers       192.168.1.100;
host quiet {
   hardware ethernet    44:4d:50:80:92:a7;
   fixed-address        192.168.1.102;
   option routers      192.168.1.100;
   filename             "/pxegrub";
}
}