I agree that this is an annoying problem. In DHCPv6 even determining the
MAC address of a client is a slightly dodgy operation - there are
circumstances where it's not possible. That notwithstanding, dnsmasq
does it's best, and allows you to configure an address to allocated by
MAC address.
The pr
There is an extension for DHCPv6 to send client's MAC address as DHCP
option 79. And in case there is no DHCPv6 relay and packets comes from
ethernet, you can read MAC address directly from ethernet frame which
contains that UDP (DHCPv6) packet. In other cases MAC address is really
not available, b
Am 03.06.2018 um 23:20 schrieb Simon Kelley:
> I agree that this is an annoying problem. In DHCPv6 even determining the
> MAC address of a client is a slightly dodgy operation - there are
> circumstances where it's not possible. That notwithstanding, dnsmasq
> does it's best, and allows you to conf
