[Dnsmasq-discuss] Added a new type of wireless device, but no IP

[Simon Kelley]

John Grant wrote:
> So I succumbed to getting a tablet!
> 
> Just like all my other devices I added its MAC address with wildcards at the end in case I buy more, just like my other devices.
> Alas, "no address available".
> I changed the MAC pattern to be an exact match, but no change.
> Then I started afresh and made it a single address entry (just like some others), but still no dice.
> Running in -d mode doesn't actually show more information, so how do I debug this?
> 
> 
> dnsmasq-dhcp: DHCPDISCOVER(br0) 48:5d:60:22:91:06 no address available
> 
> even with this entry:
> 
> dhcp-host=48:5d:60:22:91:06,wetab,172.20.4.102,infinite
> 
> The only thing I can spot is that the first octet is not 00, unlike EVERY other MAC I have...
> 

"No address available" implies that it's trying to give the machine a
non-fixed address and can't. That's possibly because you've configured
dnsmasq without a dynamic address pool. Whatever, it's not giving it
172.20.4.102 for some reason.

Try setting log-dhcp in the configuration: that should give you more
information about what's going on.


Simon.