[Dnsmasq-discuss] Patch: Allow wildcard aliases in --bridge-interface option

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Wed Jun 11 20:25:29 UTC 2014


On 11/06/14 15:49, Neil Jerram wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> Please would you consider the attached patch, which allows a trailing '*' wildcard
> in each <alias> that is specified in the --bridge-interface option.  My team is
> working on a new form of host/VM networking where VM data is routed instead of
> bridged, and this patch allows us to use dnsmasq as the DHCP server in that scenario.
> 
> You'll see that the patch updates the English and French man pages accordingly.  It
> doesn't update the Spanish one because - assuming I've understood it correctly - that
> version doesn't yet mention the existing wildcarding possibility for the --interface
> option; hence there wasn't some nice idiomatic text that I could reuse for
> --bridge-interface.
> 


That's very clever. Patch accepted and applied in git.


Cheers,

Simon.





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