[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq as dhcp-relay?

[Simon Kelley]

Douglas Mortensen wrote:
> I'm using Untangle UTM, which uses dnsmasq as its DNS/DHCP server. We
> are in an active directory domain environment and prefer to use DHCP
> helpers to send all DHCP request broadcasts to one of our windows
> servers on a different subnet. Is there an option that I can enable
> to make dnsmasq forward all DHCP broadcasts to a DHCP server on
> another subnet, instead of handling them itself?
> 
> I've looked at the mailing list archives, but can't find a definitive
> answer on this one. I appreciate your help.

There's no option to do that in dnsmasq. I've released a separate
dhcp-relay: http://thekelleys.org.uk/dhcp-helper/dhcp-helper-1.0.tar.gz
which is very small and should compile and run on  any Linux-based
system. Alternatively you could use ISC dhcp-relay.


HTH

Simon.