[Dnsmasq-discuss] Dnsmasq DHCP Server Doesn't Work

Gabriel A. Devenyi ace at staticwave.ca
Fri Aug 26 23:37:17 BST 2005


On August 25, 2005 09:28, Simon Kelley wrote:
> I'd guess this might be a problem: an unconfigured host doing DHCP will 
> broadcast packets with a source address of 0.0.0.0.
> 
> In general it's worth looking directly at the iptables rules generated 
> by this stuff. You need to be able to recieve packets sent to 
> 255.255.255.255 and packets sent from 0.0.0.0, as well as the more 
> obvious things.

Alright, I understand now, I've changed what eth0 is allowed to accept:
interface eth0 lan src "${lan_ips} 0.0.0.0" and dnsmasq works now, cheers!

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Gabriel Devenyi
ace at staticwave.ca



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