[Dnsmasq-discuss] DHCP Proxy Problem

[Simon Kelley]

On 18/01/13 02:01, Joe Giles wrote:
> I think I found a solution to this, but need more help...
>
> Looking around in the mailing list, I saw a thread titled:
> [Dnsmasq-discuss] PXE service across subnets
>
> And in it, the solution was to add the netmask to the end of the
> dhcp-range proxy:
>
> dhcp-range=10.226.77.255,proxy,255.255.254.0
>
> However, we have over 50 sub networks, so would there be some "Catch
> All" address I could use for this?
>
> If not, can I add each network on a seperate line like so:
>
> dhcp-range=10.226.77.255,proxy,255.255.254.0
> dhcp-range=10.226.87.255,proxy,255.255.254.0
> dhcp-range=10.226.97.255,proxy,255.255.254.0
>

You can certainly do that.

As you're only using dnsmasq to do PXE, which address allocation 
elsewhere, it will _probably_ work to have a single dhcp-range line with 
a smaller netmask, ie

dhcp-range=10.226.0.0,255.255.0.0

Give it a try.


Cheers,

Simon.