[Dnsmasq-discuss] How to configure 2 different nets: 1 guestnet, 1 "known-host net"?

[Lars Rohwedder]

Simon Kelley schrieb:
> Lars Rohwedder wrote:
>>> You need a dhcp-range for the the "known hosts" net too
>>> 
>>> dhcp-range=192.168.8.0,static
>>> 
>>> should do the trick.
>> Thanks, that works fine! :-)
>> 
>> Perhaps the man-page or example-config should mention this use case
>> explicitly, because it is a quite common setup, I think.
> 
> It's in the man page:
> 
> "The end address may be replaced by the keyword static which tells
> dnsmasq to enable DHCP for  the  network specified,  but  not  to
> dynamically  allocate  IP addresses:  only  hosts  which  have
> static  addresses  given via dhcp-host or from /etc/ethers will be
> served."

Yes, it is written there, but I didn't find it there because I didn't
know that such lines are _necessary_ and not optional.

So skipped this chapter because I thought the dynamic IP range and the
hard-coded addresses are enough. :-(

> I'll add an example too.

Good idea! Thank you, in the name of all the guys who are enlighted by
such a short example. :-)

Lars R.