On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 05:57:40PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > On 10/7/21 5:13 pm, john doe wrote: > > On 7/10/2021 7:58 AM, Paul Gear wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > It's been a while since I originally posted about this, and I've done a > > > lot of experimenting without landing on a working setup. > > > > > > I'm trying to get a very simple test case working, where I have a number > > > of vnet interfaces, all configured with the link-local address > > > 169.254.0.1/16, and have dnsmasq allocate the leases out of a different > > > range (in this case, I'm using a portion of the documentation prefix, > > > 203.0.113.0/29). Here's my configuration: > > > > > > pid-file=/var/lib/dnsmasq-vnet/dnsmasq-vnet.pid > > > bind-dynamic > > > interface=vnet* > > > log-dhcp > > > no-hosts > > > dhcp-range=203.0.113.0, 255.255.255.248, 1d > > > > From (1): > > > > " this dhcp-range MUST include the netmask." > > > > Unless I'm missing something, I don't see a subnet mask being specified. > > > > > > 1) https://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html > > > Hi John, > > Unless I'm missing something 255.255.255.248 is a netmask, and dnsmasq > doesn't appear to support CIDR notation in dhcp-range specifications. At > least, when I attempt to use /29 instead, it fails to start, saying: > > dnsmasq: bad dhcp-range at line 41 of /var/lib/dnsmasq-vnet/dnsmasq.conf Snippet dnsmasq manual page
--dhcp-range=[tag:<tag>[,tag:<tag>],][set:<tag>,]<start-addr>[,<end-addr>|<mode>][,<netmask>[,<broadcast>]][,<lease time>] So > > > dhcp-range=203.0.113.0, 255.255.255.248, 1d should be something like } } } dhcp-range=203.0.113.0, 203.0.113.7,255.255.255.248, 1d Back to > > From (1): > > > > " this dhcp-range MUST include the netmask." > > > > Unless I'm missing something, I don't see a subnet mask being specified. > > > > > > 1) https://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html > > If so, the --dhcp-range=[tag:<tag>[,tag:<tag>],][set:<tag>,]<start-addr>[,<end-addr>|<mode>][,<netmask>[,<broadcast>]][,<lease time>] should be --dhcp-range=[tag:<tag>[,tag:<tag>],][set:<tag>,]<start-addr>[,<end-addr>|<mode>],<netmask>[,<broadcast>][,<lease time>] or even --dhcp-range=[tag:<tag>[,tag:<tag>],][set:<tag>,]<start-addr>,<end-addr>|<mode>,<netmask>[,<broadcast>][,<lease time>] > Regards, > Paul Groeten Geert Stappers ADA coin wallet address DdzFFzCqrhsmqj9cvCvEcpq7D97cqSVmKKB8wEAzyAxYP76PwhFZBi1qyz9e38heFdQ2twPhmaWusS2XogsBgz5Mx7DYxtN4W9TnPEPW -- 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
