[Dnsmasq-discuss] DHCP multi tenancy

[Kevin]

Hello.

Your statement is correct, it’s definitely a working solution but it can become a hassle to orchestrate (spawning / configuring / monitoring them all, …)

This thread was mainly created to trigger a discussion and see if, somehow, incorporating a concept of tenancy as a native feature would interest you / the community ?

Thank you for your time 

> On 20 Aug 2025, at 16:49, Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk> wrote:
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>> On 8/18/25 12:49, Kevin wrote:
>> Hello
>> We need to implement multi tenancy at the DHCP level. It means the same subnet (e.g 10.0.0.0/24) might be used by several clients and both should be able to get a lease for 10.0.0.1.
>> We planned to implement this by relying on the Circuit-Id to help us distinguish which subnet to choose from.
>> Unfortunately, we did not manage to make it work. Can you confirm this feature (reusing the same subnet several times) is not currently possible?
>> Is it something you would be interested to implement / get implemented?
>> Thanks for your time
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> It's probably possible to do this by running multiple dnsmasq processes.
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> The comments about circuit-id imply that you're using a DHCP relay between the client subnets and the DHCP server. Is that correct? If so can you configure your relays to relay to non-standard ports?
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> Cheers,
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> Simon.
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