[Dnsmasq-discuss] bad dhcp-host because of mac-address?

[Simon Kelley]

Daniel Link wrote:
>>dhcp-host=00:10:DC:19:F9:FA,Poseidon,192.168.1.2
>>dhcp-host=00:00:1C:0C:47:B3,Zeus,192.168.1.2
> 
> 
> There's a typo in the second line, should be "192.168.1.3". I didn't use
> copy & paste, so it was correct on the server right from the beginning.
> The problem lies elsewhere. Just to be sure, I'll paste the exact line,
> in case my eyes play tricks on me again:
> 
> dhcp-host=00:00:1C:0C:47:B3,Zeus,192.168.1.3
> dhcp-host=00:10:DC:19:F9:FA,Poseidon,192.168.1.2
> 
> I'd suggest you try and include the second line in your own config for
> testing purpose, to see if this problem only occurs on my box. I use
> dnsmasq-2.20 on FreeBSD-5.3-stable.
> 

I tried it on FreeBSD-5.3-stable/dnsmasq-2.20 and can't provoke any 
problems.

A possible gotcha is that on FreeBSD the config file resides, by 
default, in /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf. The reason for this I don't 
understand, the FBSD porter wanted it like that.

Cheers,

Simon.