On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 12:38:16PM +0100, Jesus M Diaz wrote: > Hello, Hi,
> I have a 'TP-Link One-Mesh' system at home formed by the main router and > three satellite access-points. It works really well making a good coverage > over the house with smooth change from one AP to the other, but it has a > caveat: for DHCP requests, the AP change the client mac-address with a > combination of the three last duplas from the own AP mac-addr and the last > three ones from the client itself. Why? Long / verbose: I wonder **why** the Acces Point makes that change. > So, imagine my client mac-addr is A:B:C:D:E:F and my APs mac-addr are > aN:bN:cN:dN:eN:fN, with N a number to identify the AP. > > If the client connects directly to the router, the dhcp request will come > from A:B:C:D:E:F. But if it connects to one of the AP, the dhcp request > will come from dN:eN:fN:D:E:F. > > This is not a problem for dynamic assignments (well, sometimes is for the > name link in the dns part, but not critical). > > But when I have static leases the problems. I have defined dhcp-hosts > entries with multiple mac-addr, something the documentations explain as: > > *As a special case, in DHCPv4, it is possible to include more than one > > hardware address. > > eg: --dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,12:34:56:78:90:12,192.168.0.2 This allows > > an IP address to be associated with multiple hardware addresses, and gives > > dnsmasq permission to abandon a DHCP lease to one of the hardware addresses > > when another one asks for a lease.* > > > But the reality is that when a second request comes, dnsmasq finds the IP > is in used and assigns a new one from the global pool, instead of the > static one. > > I have tried the configuration either using wildcards (*:*:*:D:E:F, given > the last part of the mac-addr remains unchanged), but also defining each > one of the possible cases > (d1:e1:f1:D:E:F,d2:e2:f2:D:E:F,d3:e3:f3:D:E:F,A:B:C:D:E:F). Same outcome in > both cases. > > Am I doing something wrong? Any idea how to fix this? Changing the Access Point configuration??? Changing the Access Points??? > Thanks in advance. Please keep us, this mailinglist (archive), posted. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
