[Dnsmasq-discuss] Static IP and hostname

[Donnie Berkholz]

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Simon Kelley wrote:
| I suspect further IP problems, rather than DHCP problems: the DHCP
| discover/offer process works using hardware-level broadcasts, but the next
| stage needs IP connectivity. It looks like the DHCP server doesn't know
| how to route to the 192.168.1.x network.

You were right. After fixing the netmask on both eth0 and in
dnsmasq.conf, it works.

What I ended up with:
dhcp-range=192.168.1.10,192.168.1.255,255.255.254.0 # Unassigned nodes
dhcp-host=<hw addr>,node01,192.168.1.1 # Static nodes

Note the netmask here (it was previously 255.255.255.0):
# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
...
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.254.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
...

tcpdump and ping were also helpful in figuring out what was happening to
traffic.

Thanks for all your help!

Donnie
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