[Dnsmasq-discuss] 1 IP for all requests

[Geert Stappers]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 03:52:35PM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> I want to know if this is in spec, or needs out of spec hacks:
> 
> For any dhcp client request, server gives the same IP.
> 
> The use case: dnsmasq is serving on 1 interface, and a client will be
> directly connected to that interface - no hub/switch/vlan etc. So there can
> only be 1 device ever connected, and I want that device to have 10.1.2.3 -
> even if I yank  it and plug in a 2nd device with a different mac etc.
> The device should get 10.1.2.3.
> 
> Even if the previous lease has not expired.    which is where I suspect
> this gets sketchy.   But maybe the spec has a prevision for this.
> 

Quoting manual page of dnsmasq

--dhcp-range=[tag:<tag>[,tag:<tag>],][set:<tag>,]<start-addr>[,<end-addr>|<mode>][,<netmask>[,<broad?
       cast>]][,<lease time>]


> I want to know if this is in spec, or needs out of spec hacks:

Please let us, the mailinglist archive, know if

dhcp-range=10.1.2.3,10.1.2.3,255.255.255.248

serves the request.
  
 

Groeten
Geert Stappers
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