[Dnsmasq-discuss] how to push static routes to DHCP clients

[Jochen Schulz]

Simon Kelley:
> Jochen Schulz wrote:
>>
>> dhcp-option=wifi,33,172.16.27.2,192.168.1.1
> 
> Your configuration looks fine, and should work. The problem is almost 
> certainly with your DHCP client, not the server.

You are correct. When I add 'static-routes' to the 'request' stanza in
my dhclient.conf, I receive the route.

> What client are  you using? The ISC dhclient  can be configured to 
> request an option in dhclient.conf, and I guess the host-configuratoin 
> script would need to be modified to get the value of the option and run 
> the correct "route add" command.

Correct. I found out that you can write custom scripts which dhclient
executes at certain points if operation. I created the file
/etc/dhclient-exit-hooks which contains this:

if [ $reason == "BOUND" ] || [ $reason == "REBOOT" ]
then
        host=$(echo $new_static_routes | awk '{ print $1 }')
        gw=$(echo $new_static_routes | awk '{ print $2 }')
        route add -host $host gw $gw
fi

dhclient executes this after getting a lease and apparently it works in
my case. Of course it's not well tested and I am a poor shell
programmer.

Thanks a lot, Simon. Not only for developing and maintaining dnsmasq,
but also for your prompt support.

J.
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