This is exactly what I was looking for - in trying to find how the name of
the interface was 'set', my search string didn't match anything here, and
my brain ignored everything around BOOTP.
Thanks again.
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:44 PM, richardvo...@gmail.com
richardvo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, I am a relatively new user of dnsmasq, on a debian system, part of
the Untangle UTM suite.
I was wondering if I could have an explanation of the form:
dhcp-range=interface:ethN,192.168.1.100, 192.168.1.200
Is 'interface' in this case a special form of tag:, and where is it set:?
I have
You forgot to cc the list.
Network interfaces are not tags that can be manipulated with tag:/set:/net:
Network interface names are matched with interface:
If you have ethernet and wireless network interface cards on your computer,
they are probably named `eth0` and `wlan0` (although `ath0` is
Where is this interface: syntax you're mentioning, anyway.
The only thing I see is that you dnsmasq automatically creates a tag for
you using the name of the network interface (that name being controlled by
udev). This is documented:
The tag system works as follows: For each DHCP request,
BTW this message was wrong.
Use tag:interfacenamehere to match against the name of a network interface.
So tag:eth0 or tag:wlan0
I don't know where the dhcp-range=interface:ethN,192.168.1.100,
192.168.1.200 came from.
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 5:19 PM, richardvo...@gmail.com
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:48 PM, richardvo...@gmail.com
richardvo...@gmail.com wrote:
Use tag:interfacenamehere to match against the name of a network
interface. So tag:eth0 or tag:wlan0
I don't know where the dhcp-range=interface:ethN,192.168.1.100,
192.168.1.200 came from.
It is
