[Dnsmasq-discuss] Help: my dnsmasq per-MAC config not working?

[Simon Kelley]

Paul Smith wrote:
> Thx for the quick reply, Simon:
> 
> On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 16:26 +0000, Simon Kelley wrote:
>> OK, quick fix to try. Modify yout default PXE options to have a netid
>> of "#replace", eg
>>
>> dhcp-option-force=#replace,210,/std/var/boot/
>>
>> That way they can't be used when the "replace" tag is set.
> 
> The problem is I need to ensure that the rest of the environment can
> still boot properly, should anything reboot while this alternative
> setting is in place.  If not for that I'd just modify the default values
> directly and not mess with the tags.

That's OK. # = NOT, so any other system won't set the replace tag and
will use that line. (I know, # isn't very intuitive, it's in process of
replacement with "!" in the current re-design of this system)


Simon.



> What I can do is to compile up a later version of dnsmasq on my test
> system to see if that fixes the problem; at least we'd have that data
> point.

Go for the very, very latest.

http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/test-releases/dnsmasq-2.53test10.tar.gz

which does have a fix in this area over 2.52.


Cheers,

Simon.