[Dnsmasq-discuss] Support for RFC5970 - DHCPv6 Options for Network Boot

2015-08-26 Thread Sean M. Collins
Hi, I'm more familiar with isc-dhcpd for doing PXE booting - which does have support for passing PXE information over DHCPv6. I searched the docs and a little bit of the dnsmasq code but didn't find any good results for this question: Does dnsmasq support setting PXE options for DHCPv6? I do

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] what's the usefulness of cache-size=0?

2015-08-26 Thread Simon Kelley
On 26/08/15 19:21, Carlos Carvalho wrote: Is it useful to set cache-size=0 instead of using upstream nameservers directly in /etc/resolv.conf? I'm surprised to see that NetworkManager has it hardcoded. If the upstream servers can change, then yes, since long-running processes may not

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] can't take away IPv4 address

2015-08-26 Thread Simon Kelley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 26/08/15 07:57, Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi Simon, On 08/25/15 23:18, Simon Kelley wrote: Dnsmasq does the check which the standards require, which is to send an ICMP ping (echo request) to the address it's about to allocate. The fact that

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] can't take away IPv4 address

2015-08-26 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi Simon, On 08/25/15 23:18, Simon Kelley wrote: Dnsmasq does the check which the standards require, which is to send an ICMP ping (echo request) to the address it's about to allocate. The fact that the client doesn't respond would seem to indicate that the clients are NOT using IP addresses

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] can't take away IPv4 address

2015-08-26 Thread Uwe Schindler
Hi Harald, Dnsmasq does the check which the standards require, which is to send an ICMP ping (echo request) to the address it's about to allocate. The fact that the client doesn't respond would seem to indicate that the clients are NOT using IP addresses after the lease has expired.

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] can't take away IPv4 address

2015-08-26 Thread Simon Kelley
On 26/08/15 08:37, Uwe Schindler wrote: Hi Harald, Dnsmasq does the check which the standards require, which is to send an ICMP ping (echo request) to the address it's about to allocate. The fact that the client doesn't respond would seem to indicate that the clients are NOT using IP