[Astlinux-users] dhcp-range in dnsmasq.static

[Michael K. <mic...@ip...>]

Hi Group

Well after all these years I realised that I was not configuring dnsmasq DHCP ranges correctly ☹

I was adding the following in dnsmasq.static:
dhcp-range=lan,172.16.16.21,172.16.16.21,24h

I assumed that it overwrote the autogenerated rc.conf range but it appears to append this range as well per what the logs are showing me:
Jan 28 13:49:37 39990-IPCBuild-CM1 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[3027]: DHCP, IP range 172.16.16.50 -- 172.16.16.150, lease time 1d
Jan 28 13:49:37 39990-IPCBuild-CM1 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[3027]: DHCP, IP range 172.16.16.100 -- 172.16.16.220, lease time 1d

I know that I can change the range in user.conf but this changes the DHCP range for ALL LAN interfaces which I do not want. Is there any way to change this?

Regards

Michael Knill
Managing Director

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