[Dnsmasq-discuss] DHCP Proxy Problem

Joe Giles jgiles at joeman1.com
Fri Jan 18 16:22:01 GMT 2013


On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 03:18:06PM +0000, Simon Kelley wrote:
> On 18/01/13 02:01, Joe Giles wrote:
> >I think I found a solution to this, but need more help...
> >
> >Looking around in the mailing list, I saw a thread titled:
> >[Dnsmasq-discuss] PXE service across subnets
> >
> >And in it, the solution was to add the netmask to the end of the
> >dhcp-range proxy:
> >
> >dhcp-range=10.226.77.255,proxy,255.255.254.0
> >
> >However, we have over 50 sub networks, so would there be some "Catch
> >All" address I could use for this?
> >
> >If not, can I add each network on a seperate line like so:
> >
> >dhcp-range=10.226.77.255,proxy,255.255.254.0
> >dhcp-range=10.226.87.255,proxy,255.255.254.0
> >dhcp-range=10.226.97.255,proxy,255.255.254.0
> >

Hi Simon :)

This is very cool... I have added all our vlans into the script and it works like a charm!

I have some other questions about redirection, but will start another thread for that.

Thanks again!
Joe

> 
> You can certainly do that.
> 
> As you're only using dnsmasq to do PXE, which address allocation
> elsewhere, it will _probably_ work to have a single dhcp-range line
> with a smaller netmask, ie
> 
> dhcp-range=10.226.0.0,255.255.0.0
> 
> Give it a try.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simon.
> 
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