<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426542443651_3378"><span></span></div><br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426542443651_3381"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426542443651_3380"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426542443651_3379"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426542443651_3413"> </div><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426542443651_3391"><br><div id="yiv5490949309"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426542443651_3394"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426542443651_3393"><div id="yiv5490949309yui_3_16_0_1_1426540644493_2551" dir="ltr">Hello,</div><div id="yiv5490949309yui_3_16_0_1_1426540644493_2551" dir="ltr">I am trying to use dnsmasq for dhcp service in cobbler provisioning tool. I am dynamically adding new mac address-ip pair to /etc/ethers file. Everything works fine from end to end , that is , it leases ip address to the mac address and the machine gets provisioned with an image. However, when I add --dhcp-ignore=tag:!known entry to dnsmasq.conf, then, the machines that get added in /etc/ethers are getting IGNORED. The documentation says it should consider machines in /etc/ethers as known machines.</div><div id="yiv5490949309yui_3_16_0_1_1426540644493_2551" dir="ltr">I do need this dhcp-ignore, because, of the following reasons:</div><div id="yiv5490949309yui_3_16_0_1_1426540644493_2551" dir="ltr">1) I do not want my dnsmasq not to lease out ip addresses to unknown machines</div><div id="yiv5490949309yui_3_16_0_1_1426540644493_2551" dir="ltr">2) Known machines are dynamically added to /etc/ethers file and i do not want to restart dnsmasq everytime i add a new machine.</div><div id="yiv5490949309yui_3_16_0_1_1426540644493_2551" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv5490949309yui_3_16_0_1_1426540644493_2551" dir="ltr">I am using ubuntu 14.04 and dnsmasq 2.68.</div><div id="yiv5490949309yui_3_16_0_1_1426540644493_2551" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv5490949309yui_3_16_0_1_1426540644493_2551" dir="ltr">If i restart dnsmasq, then, it considers /etc/ethers as known machines and leases out ip address. </div><div id="yiv5490949309yui_3_16_0_1_1426540644493_2551" dir="ltr">Any help is appreciated.</div><div id="yiv5490949309yui_3_16_0_1_1426540644493_2551" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv5490949309yui_3_16_0_1_1426540644493_2551" dir="ltr">Thanks,</div><div id="yiv5490949309yui_3_16_0_1_1426540644493_2551" dir="ltr">Jay</div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>