<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Completely disregard this second question. I’ve been staring at dhcp this and dhcp that for so long I’ve become word blind and simply not seeing that it’s DHCP-optsfile and just relates to DHCP options rather than dnsmasq options.<br class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">Time to take a break.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My apologies.</div><div class="">
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<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 16 Mar 2021, at 16:16, Ken Gillett via Dnsmasq-discuss <<a href="mailto:dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk" class="">dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I think I’ve figured this out.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SIGHUP causes dnsmasq to re-read the ‘opts’ files, but it does NOT re-read any ‘conf’ files.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So a significant and possibly very useful difference.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">Any other differences anyone knows?</div><div class="">
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<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 16 Mar 2021, at 15:39, Ken Gillett via Dnsmasq-discuss <<a href="mailto:dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk" class="">dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">--dhcp-optsfile/dir and/or --conf-file/dir point to external files/dirs. My question then is:-</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">What’s the difference between these ‘opts’ and ‘conf’ files?</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">As far as I understand, they would both contain dnsmasq configuration options (without the --) so is there a difference, or are they both just different ways of specifying external configuration files of options?</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk" class="">Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk</a><br class=""><a href="https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss" class="">https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>