I'm preparing to install dnsmasq here and I need to give specific dhcp options to several tens of machines. The way to do it is to assign network-id's to them and use the dhcp-option clause. However how can this assignment be done easily? I've only found dhcp-mac (for specific machines). This makes reading /etc/ethers (wonderful feature) nearly useless since I still have to create a long list of dhcp-mac statements with the mac addresses.
It'd be very convenient if one could use the machine name from the dns side as a network-id in dhcp-option... I also noticed that there's no possibility of reading another file instead of /etc/ethers, as can be done for dns with addn-hosts (-H). This could be useful. Also, since this file would be for dnsmasq only, one could add a third column with a (optional) network-id for the machines that need specific options (hint, hint). Out of curiosity, dnsmasq can be run in name-server-only mode but it seems it cannot be used in dhcp-server-only mode. Makes me wonder why... Happy new year to all.
