[Dnsmasq-discuss] Remembering DHCP Assignments

SamLT samuel.lethiec at intelunix.fr
Fri Jul 15 09:50:28 BST 2011


On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 01:56:16AM +0100, Freddie Witherden wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:24:18 +0100, Simon Kelley
> <simon at thekelleys.org.uk> wrote:
> > Dnsmasq attempts to do that same thing, but the implementation is a bit
> > different. Instead of keeping records of all clients almost forever, it
> > allocates IP addresses using a hash of the client's MAC address, so
> > normally the same client should always get the same address. To make
> > this work well, the size of the DHCP address range should ideally be
> > much larger than the number of clients. If you have ten IP addresses and
> > nine clients, then hash collisions will mean that the IP address
> > allocations are essentially random. If you have 250 IP addresses and
> > nine clients, then there will probably be no collisions, and a client
> > will always get the same IP address.
> > 
> > Another option to consider is to make DHCP lease times infinite, that
> > will give the same address every time, but might risk running out of
> > addresses long-term is the set of clients changes over time.
> > 
> > Finally, if the only reason you care about long-term stable addresses is
> > for naming in /etc/hosts, then consider moving that information to the
> > dnsmasq configuration and mapping names to MAC addresses instead.
> > 
> > dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,mylaptop
> > 
> > that way stable IP addresses are not required. (See also --read-ethers),
> > you can keep this mapping in /etc/ethers rather than the dnsmasq
> > configuration file if that suits.)
> 
> Thank you for this.  /etc/ethers and /etc/hosts is quite a nice
> solution.  However, I do have one query regarding mapping multiple
> MACs/IP addresses to a single host.  Several devices on my network have
> both wired and wireless adapters and it would be nice if both could
> share the same hostname; under the assumption that the two will never be
> connected at the same time.  Is this possible with /etc/ethers?
> 

/etc/ethers is standardized, so I'm not sure that's possible, however
it's possible with the directive dhcp-host: (from the manual):

| As a special case, it is possible to include more than one hardware
| address. eg: --dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,12:34:56:78:90:12,192.168.0.2





> Regards, Freddie.
> 
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