Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Sequential IP doesn't look for unused IPs

2016-12-24 Thread Albert ARIBAUD
Hi Alec, Le Fri, 23 Dec 2016 20:04:55 -0500 Alec Robertson a écrit: > When using sequential IP, the IP allocation should start from the > lowest available IP address. > > However, if the lease time is quite short for the clients, the > clients can renew their IP addresses and be given IP addres

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Sequential IP doesn't look for unused IPs

2016-12-24 Thread wkitty42
On 12/23/2016 08:04 PM, Alec Robertson wrote: When using sequential IP, the IP allocation should start from the lowest available IP address. this depends on the implementation... some start at the bottom (lowest) and others start at the top (highest)... where they start does not really matter.

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Sequential IP doesn't look for unused IPs

2016-12-24 Thread Alec Robertson
Thank you for your replies. What I mean (as I said I didn’t explain it very well), is that the sequential IP feature results in lots of empty IP addresses, so effectively you end up with a much smaller range of possible IP addresses. I was requesting the ability for dnsmasq to look through the en

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Sequential IP doesn't look for unused IPs

2016-12-24 Thread Albert ARIBAUD
Hi again Alec, Le Sat, 24 Dec 2016 06:55:09 -0800 Alec Robertson a écrit: > Thank you for your replies. > > What I mean (as I said I didn’t explain it very well), is that the > sequential IP feature results in lots of empty IP addresses, so > effectively you end up with a much smaller range of

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Sequential IP doesn't look for unused IPs

2016-12-24 Thread Alec Robertson
My apologies for the unclear explanation. For background I am using OpenWRT/LEDE r2544-a032940, on a TP-LINK Archer C7. For a test, if you set the leasetime to be very short, say 2 minutes and connect multiple devices, they will at first be given IPs in sequential order starting from the lowest a

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Sequential IP doesn't look for unused IPs

2016-12-24 Thread Alec Robertson
I understand what you’re saying but I was suggesting this should be a feature enhancement. All the other routers I have used work the way I have described, be it NETGEAR, Asus, Huawei, etc. ___ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Sequential IP doesn't look for unused IPs

2016-12-24 Thread Albert ARIBAUD
Bonjour, Le Sat, 24 Dec 2016 16:15:23 -0500 Alec Robertson a écrit: > My apologies for the unclear explanation. > > For background I am using OpenWRT/LEDE r2544-a032940, on a TP-LINK > Archer C7. > > For a test, if you set the leasetime to be very short, say 2 minutes > and connect multiple de