[Dnsmasq-discuss] DHCP message

[richardvoigt at gmail.com]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk> wrote:
> On 21/05/12 11:34, Ian Rose wrote:
>> Is it possible to send a message to the client device when an IP address
>> is allocated via DHCP? This would only be a static info message for my
>> purposes, and it wouldn't matter much if some clients didn't support
>> showing it and so ignored it.
>>
>> Apparently Apple Wi-Fi routers do this, but I'm not sure if this is a
>> vendor-specific addition or something that other DHCP servers are
>> capable of too.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> The closest to useful information I could Google-up was this:
>
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/dhcpd-welcome-message-767020/
>
> which indicates that it's a vendor specific option, but not which.
>
> If you can find out what DHCP option is used, dnsmasq can almost
> certainly be configured to send it.
>
> Maybe ask Apple support?

Or use packet capture to see the traffic from an Apple router...

>
>
> Simon.
>
>
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