Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Config file length / performance question

2008-12-07 Thread Johann MacDonagh
Simon, Thanks for the quick response. Using a couple quick bash for loops, I set up a config that is over 8000 lines long (64 VLANs * 128 hosts). Runs like a champ. Perfect! It literally made our lab 100x better (no more manually settings IPs!) But, I'm having difficulty getting dhcp-option 12

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Config file length / performance question

2008-12-07 Thread Simon Kelley
Johann MacDonagh wrote: But, I'm having difficulty getting dhcp-option 12 to work (hostname). If, in an experiment, someone deploys out 2 or more Windows boxes, all but the first one will complain that the host name already exists on the network. Sysprep is an option, but it's slow and buggy

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Config file length / performance question

2008-12-07 Thread Johann MacDonagh
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Simon Kelley si...@thekelleys.org.uk wrote: If windows as requesting option 12, then it will be sent as vm0101, in your example. Are you sure that windows will take the hostname via DHCP? Windows hosts normally work the other way around, ie the host tells the

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] dhcp-ignore = myTag, #known was not what I thought

2008-12-07 Thread Mariano Absatz
Simon Kelley escribió el 06/12/08 19:04: Mariano Absatz wrote: 1) does dhcp-range allow me to match more than one tag? or to match one (or more) and set another one? It allows you to match more than one, but they're combined as AND, so dhcp-range=net:tag1, net:tag2, .. means use