[Dnsmasq-discuss] Question about the error message

[Saori Fukuta]

Hello,

I got the following message at /var/log/messages,
   dnsmasq[13884]: no address range available for DHCP request via eth3
when I have the following steps with dnsmasq-2.39-2.el5 (on RHEL-5.2):
   1. start the dnsmasq, which is started by libvirt, with the 
      following option.
      # /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --keep-in-foreground --strict-order --bind-interfaces --pid-file  --conf-file  --listen-address 192.168.122.1 --except-interface lo --dhcp-leasefile=/var/lib/libvirt/dhcp-default.leases --dhcp-range 192.168.122.2,192.168.122.254
   2. change the network address of eth3 to '0.0.0.0'.
      # ifconfig eth3 0 up
   3. dnsmasq receives the DHCPINFORM message from DHCP servers of
      Windwos 2003 server.
      # tethereal -i eth3
      5.521471 10.123.234.11 -> 255.255.255.255 DHCP DHCP Inform   - Transaction ID 0xbe180000

Do you know why the message appeared ? Please tell me the meaning of 
this message.

Regards,
Saori Fukuta