I am trying to set up a small "lab" in my home. Like many homes, I have a regular DSL service which comes with a 2Wire 3600HGV router, which acts also as a DHCP server. Since
* I would like to PXE boot a few computers in my "lab" * The 2Wire is flexible * I have used dnsmasq at work so I would like to use dnsmasq as the DHCP server for the few nodes in my "lab" if feasible. Checking the man page at http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html, there is the following: [...] -K, --dhcp-authoritative (IPv4 only) Should be set when dnsmasq is definitely the only DHCP server on a network. It changes the behaviour from strict RFC compliance so that DHCP requests on unknown leases from unknown hosts are not ignored. This allows new hosts to get a lease without a tedious timeout under all circumstances. It also allows dnsmasq to rebuild its lease database without each client needing to reacquire a lease, if the database is lost. [...] As far as I know, the ISC DHCP server can use the following to do what I would like to accomplish: authoritative; [...] subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { host nb0 { # 'ping target_host', 'arp' shows MAC address # only give DHCP information to this computer: hardware ethernet e8:9a:8f:17:70:42; # Basic DHCP info (see 'ifconfig', 'route', 'cat /etc/resolv.conf') fixed-address 192.168.1.10; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option routers 192.168.1.254; option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.254; # Non-essential DHCP options filename "/pxelinux.0"; } [...] But I much prefer dnsmasq's "all-in-one-ness". My question: do I have to couple the -K option with something else? As shown in the example above, the ISC DHCP server requires the mac addresses of managed nodes to be explicitly specified. Does dnsmasq have something similar? Regards, -- Zack _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
