[Dnsmasq-discuss] no address range available

Rune Kock rune.kock at gmail.com
Fri Dec 26 17:35:17 GMT 2008


On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 18:18, Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net> wrote:
> On 12/25/2008 05:39:01 PM, Rune Kock wrote:
>> Hi Geoffrey
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 01:13, Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net>
>> wrote:
>> > I'm attempting to connect an HDHR (see thread elsewhere). Every
>> time
>> > the HDHR sends out a DHCP Discover packet, dnsmasq says:
>> >
>> > dnsmasq: no address range available for DHCP request via eth0
>> >
>> > Config is attached, but the relevant option would seem to be
>> >
>> > dhcp-range=192.168.10.5,192.168.10.10
>> >
>> > Can someone interpret or, better yet, point me to a list of such
>> > messages?
>>
>> If your eth0 still doesn't have an IP-address, then that is probably
>> the problem.
>>
>> Dnsmasq checks that the dhcp-range matches the subnet that the
>> interface uses.  It likely discards your dhcp-range setting, if eth0
>> doesn't have an 192.168.10.xxx address.
>
> Hmmmm .... clearly I need training! I was under the impression that a
> DHCP Discover packet is sent for the purpose of being assigned an IP
> address. What am I missing?

You're right that the client (HDHR) sends a discover packet as part of
the process of getting an address.

But on the server (PVR - the machine running dnsmasq), the interface
used (eth0) must have an address already.  Typically, that interface
is configured manually with a static address.



More information about the Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list