[Dnsmasq-discuss] Announce: dnsmasq-2.37

[Simon Kelley]

Karl Svec wrote:
> Simon,
> 
> A quick test with a Linux box, a Mac OS X box, and a firewire cable shows that the DHCP over firewire 
> support in the new dnsmasq release works like a charm :)

Cool!  I should maybe have been more expansive in the changelog: 
previous versions (not all, but recent ones) worked, the change for 2.37 
fixes logging. Dnsmasq logs lines like this:

DHCPREQUEST(eth1) 192.168.1.119 00:16:6f:b4:4c:bf

which include the MAC address. Since firewire doesn't send a MAC 
address, that field was missing. The change is to extract a good unique 
identifier from the rest of the DHCP data for logging purposes. For sane 
DHCP  clients on Firwire, that should be the EUI-64 id, 64 bits, or 8 bytes.

The same data is used as a hash-seed for doing IP address allocation, so 
that will be properly spread over the available IP range now, instead of 
using the lowest free address.

> 
> Thanks for your support!
> 
> 
No problem.


Cheers,

Simon.