[Dnsmasq-discuss] Dnsmasq Stopping In Authoritive Mode

[Bill Aitken]

We have a wireless segment connected of our firewall, with dnsmasq 
configured to provide DHCP addresses to the wireless clients.  We've 
configured DHCP as  authoritative in order to ensure clients connecting 
always get one of our addresses.  However, when a client connects with 
an IP from another source DNSmasq simply shuts down with no errors in 
the log, other than martian and "wrong network" errors:

martian source 192.168.2.1 from 192.168.2.100,
on dev eth1

then:

Mar 14 08:52:31 taygate kernel: [53210378.550000] ll header:
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:05:4e:4b:77:fd:08:06
Mar 14 08:52:34 taygate dnsmasq[16784]: DHCPREQUEST(eth1)
192.168.2.100 00:05:4e:4b:77:fd
Mar 14 08:52:34 taygate dnsmasq[16784]: DHCPNAK(eth1) 192.168.2.100
00:05:4e:4b:77:fd wrong network
Mar 14 08:53:25 taygate monit[11990]: 'dnsmasq' process is not running

If I give myself a manual address, then remove the authoritive directive 
I receive an address correctly.

Has anyone came across this issue before?

Bill

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Bill Aitken
IT Service Delivery Manager