[Dnsmasq-discuss] Simplest working "shared-network" configuration?

[Geert Stappers]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 05:57:40PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
> On 10/7/21 5:13 pm, john doe wrote:
> > On 7/10/2021 7:58 AM, Paul Gear wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > It's been a while since I originally posted about this, and I've done a
> > > lot of experimenting without landing on a working setup.
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to get a very simple test case working, where I have a number
> > > of vnet interfaces, all configured with the link-local address
> > > 169.254.0.1/16, and have dnsmasq allocate the leases out of a different
> > > range (in this case, I'm using a portion of the documentation prefix,
> > > 203.0.113.0/29).  Here's my configuration:
> > > 
> > > pid-file=/var/lib/dnsmasq-vnet/dnsmasq-vnet.pid
> > > bind-dynamic
> > > interface=vnet*
> > > log-dhcp
> > > no-hosts
> > > dhcp-range=203.0.113.0, 255.255.255.248, 1d
> > 
> > From (1):
> > 
> > " this dhcp-range MUST include the netmask."
> > 
> > Unless I'm missing something, I don't see a subnet mask being specified.
> > 
> > 
> > 1)  https://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html
> 
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Unless I'm missing something 255.255.255.248 is a netmask, and dnsmasq
> doesn't appear to support CIDR notation in dhcp-range specifications.  At
> least, when I attempt to use /29 instead, it fails to start, saying:
> 
> dnsmasq: bad dhcp-range at line 41 of /var/lib/dnsmasq-vnet/dnsmasq.conf
 
Snippet dnsmasq manual page

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

So
> > > dhcp-range=203.0.113.0, 255.255.255.248, 1d
should be something like
} } } dhcp-range=203.0.113.0, 203.0.113.7,255.255.255.248, 1d


Back to
> > From (1):
> > 
> > " this dhcp-range MUST include the netmask."
> > 
> > Unless I'm missing something, I don't see a subnet mask being specified.
> > 
> > 
> > 1)  https://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html
> > 

If so, the
  --dhcp-range=[tag:<tag>[,tag:<tag>],][set:<tag>,]<start-addr>[,<end-addr>|<mode>][,<netmask>[,<broadcast>]][,<lease time>]
should be
  --dhcp-range=[tag:<tag>[,tag:<tag>],][set:<tag>,]<start-addr>[,<end-addr>|<mode>],<netmask>[,<broadcast>][,<lease time>]
or even
  --dhcp-range=[tag:<tag>[,tag:<tag>],][set:<tag>,]<start-addr>,<end-addr>|<mode>,<netmask>[,<broadcast>][,<lease time>]



> Regards,
> Paul



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Geert Stappers


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