[Dnsmasq-discuss] [dnsmasq] DHCP broadcast option

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Thu Apr 7 08:39:59 UTC 2022


There's no regression that I'm aware of. It's worth setting the log-dhcp 
option to see what's going on with tags. Also look at packet dumps. Is 
the "broadcast" flag set in the OFFER packets?

Simon.

On 07/04/2022 08:35, Gokularajan G T wrote:
> Dear Simon,
> 
> I believe dnsmasq currently supports the DHCP broadcast option for OFFER 
> packets with either --dhcp-broadcast command line option or using 
> "dhcp-broadcast=tag:needs-broadcast" in the config file.
> Even though we use any of those options, the offer packet is*always sent 
> as unicast* to the client.
> 
> Can this be a regression or am I missing something? Need some 
> clarification on this please.
> 
> I am currently using,
> dnsmasq version: 2.86
> OS: Linux
> 
> Best Regards,
> Gokularajan



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