I think tools from contrib/lease-tools might help you with that. It
makes dnsmasq to release some lease on demand. If you shut down VM, it
can be used to free its former lease.
I think also d-bus API can be used for the same thing, it might be more
reliable.
On 2/11/19 9:43 PM, Graeme Peterson wrote:
> Hi all. Happy 2019!
>
> A bit of an odd question: Is there any way to run dnsmasq in some kind
> of standalone test or dry-run mode without being connected to
> actual/virtual networks, where I could define subnets and IP ranges,
> somehow issue requests for IPs on subnets, and then use those IPs in my
> VM deployment tests that require static IPs, releasing them when done or
> when their lease expires?
>
> EXPLANATION
> ===
>
> I work in a test team on a product that does a lot of virtual network
> configuration for various deployed VMs. Some of the testing uses dhcp
> for the VMs' interfaces, so far so good. Some tests need to exercise
> static IP configuration. I need a way to manage the allocation of static
> IPs on all the test VMs in our automation. Hard coding the values is
> cumbersome, error prone, and we run out of IPs in most /24 subnets
> pretty quickly if we make sure every test deployment has a unique static
> IP.
>
> So I got to thinking. I could write some kind of static IP allocator
> that would respond to requests on a per-subnet basis, release the IPs
> back into a pool of some kind when the test is done with them, maybe
> have a timeout to auto-release the IPs in case the release is missed,...
>
>
> Hang on. Sounds like dhcp. Which brings me to my above question, and
> this email.
>
> Thank you,
> Graeme
>
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