[Dnsmasq-discuss] Restrict dhcpd listening interfaces.

[Simon Kelley]

On 27/03/12 15:18, Simon wrote:


> The strange packets have source address 0.0.0.0 and/or destination
> address 255.255.255.255. When an socket is bound to a particular
> address, it may not receive these packets. Some kernels work fine,
> but it's really moving into undefined territory and portable code
> which works everywhere is much easier when binding the wildcard.

As an example of the sort of trouble you can get into with this, imagine
a physical network interface with two IP addresses, say

192.168.1.1 and 192.168.2.1

Now start two different instances of a DHCP server, one bound to
192.168.1.1 and the other bound to 192.168.2.1

A client on the network attached to the interface now starts DHCP by
broadcasting to 255.255.255.255. Which DHCP server instance should reply?


Cheers,

Simon.