[Dnsmasq-discuss] log messages

Rune Kock rune.kock at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 13:26:08 BST 2009


On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:48, Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk> wrote:
> Tom Metro wrote:
>>
>>> DHCPDISCOVER(eth0) 00:04:61:4b:d1:33
>>
>> Can inclusion of the interface be made conditional upon configuration
>> settings that make it relevant? For the vast majority of use cases, there
>> will only be one interface.
>>
> Many setups have multiple interfaces. Every firewall with a DMZ, for
> instance.

Please keep the interface, even when dnsmasq uses only a single one.
It makes it easier to quickly see what's going on.

Of course, if the machine has only one interface, it could be omitted.
 But it seems hardly feasible for dnsmasq to determine whether that is
the case.


Rune



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