[Dnsmasq-discuss] several newbie questions

Vasiliy Tolstov v.tolstov at selfip.ru
Thu May 23 10:56:59 BST 2013


Thanks for all answers!

2013/5/23 Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk>:
> On 22/05/13 12:07, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
>>
>> 2013/5/21 Simon Kelley<simon at thekelleys.org.uk>:
>>>
>>> I'm assuming you're talking about IPv4. It would be possible if the DHCP
>>> client(s) provided three different client-ids. (client-ids are used in
>>> preference to MAC addresses to identify clients in DHCP). Your main
>>> problem
>>> would be finding a client which will support that and cope with multiple
>>> addresses, I don't know of one that does.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hmm. For example i have such client or have patches for that. How can
>> i provide this ips in dnsmasq?
>
>
>
> dhcp-host=id:<client-id 1>,<IP address 1>
> dhcp-host=id:<client-id 2>,<IP address 2>
>
>
> etc
> etc
>
>
>
>>
>>> See --dhcp-hostsfile. Put the host declarations in a file, tell dnsmasq
>>> about it and it will be read on SIGHUP.
>>
>>
>> Thanks. This is great. Is that possible to add ability to reload this
>> things via dbus signal?
>>
>
>
> The existing ClearCache method does this.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon.
>
>
>> --
>> Vasiliy Tolstov,
>> e-mail: v.tolstov at selfip.ru
>> jabber: vase at selfip.ru
>>
>



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