[Dnsmasq-discuss] force broadcast BOOTP reply
Simon Kelley
simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Sat Jan 12 07:46:27 GMT 2008
Bodo Bellut wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> Then I'd like to request a configuration option, if possible per client. I
>>> don't want to risk other clients stopping to work because of this.
>>>
>> OK, try
>>
>> http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/test-releases/dnsmasq-2.41test28.tar.gz
>
> Wow...
>
>> It uses the tagging system, so you can force broadcast for only BOOTP
>> like this:
>
> Works like a charm, thanks a lot.
>
> For another PXE client I have to disable PMTU discovery on the machine
> running dnsmasq (known Intel LANDesk problem). Do you think there's a
> solution to this without globally disabling PMTU discovery?
>
A new area for me:
http://www.linux.com/base/ldp/howto/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.cookbook.mtu-discovery.html
seems to indicate that it's possible to do it for a subnet (and maybe an
individual host) using the routing table. Is that the sort of thing you
mean?
Cheers,
Simon.
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