[Dnsmasq-discuss] Serving an alias interface with bootp?

[Simon Kelley]

Anssi Saari wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:23:05AM +0000, Simon Kelley wrote:
>  
> 
>>You need to provide a dhcp-range for the 10.x.x.x network in order for 
>>DHCP to work. Since you don't want to allocate any addresses dynamically 
>>on that network, the approriate incantation is
>>
>>dhcp-range=10.0.0.6,static
>>(and the "interface=br0" is right - since DHCP is broadcast, there's no 
>>difference between  interface aliases)
> 
>  
> As it turns out, this config change was enough after upgrading to
> dnsmasq 2.23.  I just didn't notice that the newest dnsmasq packaged
> for OpenWRT was 2.22 and that didn't work. 
> 
> Thanks for help.
> 

2.22 should work. It's possible that the OpenWRT build doesn't enable 
the Netlink code. (though by default 2.22, compiled against uclibc, 
does. ) Glad it's fixed, anyway.

Cheers,

Simon.