[Dnsmasq-discuss] Vendor and User class compounds

Francois-Xavier Le Bail fx.lebail at free.fr
Thu Sep 28 10:19:08 BST 2006


> Francois-Xavier Le Bail wrote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to put some options for some hosts with the network-ids match system.
>>
>> These hosts are defined by such a test :
>>
>>     (vendor-class = "Vendor_1" and
>>     (user-class = "device_1" or
>>      user-class = "device_2" or
>>      user-class = "...")
>>     ) or (
>>     vendor-class = "Vendor_2" and
>>     (user-class = "device_A" or
>>      user-class = "...")
>>     ) or (
>>     vendor-class = "Vendor_3" and
>>     (user-class = "device_AA" or
>>      user-class = "..."))
>>     ...
>>
>> Have you an example of a dnsmasq.conf file for this case ?
>>
> You need to do this in two stages: first set network-ids based on the
> vendor-class and user-class ids:
>
> dhcp-vendorclass = vendor1,"Vendor_1"  # sets tag vendor1
> dhcp-vendorclass = vendor2,"Vendor_2"  # sets tag vendor2
> # etc
>
> dhcp-userclass = user1,"device_1" # sets tag user1
> #etc
>
> then you take advantage of the fact that dhcp-option lines can have more
> than one tag, with an implied AND function. To get the OR function you
> need to repeat the dhcp-option
>
> dhcp-option=vendor1,user1,56,....... # send option 56 to hosts which are
>                                     # vendor1 and user1
>
> dhcp-option=vendor2,user2,56,....... # OR to hosts which are vendor2 and
>                                     # user2
> etc.

Thanks Simon,

We need another setup for these particular hosts.
We want to use the same range, with --dhcp-range, for all these hosts.
Is there a possible syntax AND/OR with this option ?

Francois




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