On Monday 28 October 2019 22:00:21 Oliver Freyermuth wrote: > Hi together, > > Am 12.10.19 um 23:20 schrieb Simon Kelley: > > On 10/10/2019 16:54, Florent Fourcot wrote: > >> Hello Simon, > >> > >> > >>> Of course, it involves enumerating the broken machines, rather than a > >>> blanket setting covering everything, but that's probably a good thing. > >>> It's what I wanted to provide with the tag extension I suggested, and > >>> rather renders that redundant. > >>> > >>> What do you thin Florent? Is this enough, or would you like the new > >>> blanket option as well? > >> > >> Thank you for the point on this option, I missed it before. However, > >> iIterating on hosts is not really a solution for us, since it's customer > >> devices (they appear/disappear out of our control, on a lot of sites). > >> > >> Moreover, in our context, MAC addresses are more relevant than clients > >> identifiers, even for hosts with a valid identifier. Our networks have > >> some checks on couple IP/MAC addresses consistency, and distributing an > >> IP address previously in use with another MAC is probably a bad idea for > >> this kind of tools. > >> > >> So, I'm still in favor of the blanket options. > >> > > > > OK, I'm convinced. The patch is in. > > > > Many thanks. > > > > Simon. > > is this also applicable to IPv6, which suffers from similar issues?
No, patch in this email thread affects only IPv4. > This could chime in well withe the patch posted earlier by Pali Rohár on this > list. Yea, it would be year since last time I sent this patch to mailing list... and is still not processed / reviewed yet. > Cheers, > Oliver > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list > > Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk > > http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss > > > -- Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com
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