User manual

10: DHCP server and DNS configuration

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address of the

underlying interface

to calculate the

minimum address

that may be leased to

clients. It may be

greater 255 to span

subnets.

10.3 Static leases

You can assign fixed IP addresses to hosts on your network, based on their MAC

(hardware) address.

The configuration options in this section are used to construct a –G option for

dnsmasq.

root@VA_router:~# uci show dhcp.mypc

dhcp.mypc=host

dhcp.mypc.ip=192.168.1.2

dhcp.mypc.mac=00:11:22:33:44:55

dhcp.mypc.name=mypc

config host 'mypc'

option ip '192.168.1.2'

option mac '00:11:22:33:44:55'

option name 'mypc'

This adds the fixed IP address 192.168.1.2 and the name "mypc" for a

machine with the (Ethernet) hardware address 00:11:22:33:44:55

Type Required Default Description

ip string yes (none)

Specifies the IP address to be used for this

host.

mac string yes (none) Specifies the hardware address of this host.

name

string

(none)

Sets the optional hostname to assign.

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