Re: DHCPCD on an internal LAN

Responding to Ivan Marsh...

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So, is dnsmasq the tool for the job. or am I looking at a high speed
run down the other side of the learning curve when I realise I
misread something about what dnsmasq was designed to do?

No. dnsmasq would appear to do exactly the opposite of what you're trying
to do.

Well, guess what? It appears to be the case. It *can* be fiddled with
to just serve IPs to a local network (I've just been testing a few
config hacks ), and *can* be blocked from "sending out" for DNS, but
thats not what dnsmasq seems to have been designed to do.

As for isolating the internal machines, if the P2 machine isn't offering
them any route to the internet then they won't have one... or one better,
changing the firewall to explicitly prevent a route to the internet.

Already done. As I mentioned, its already been set up with static
IPs. I just need to replace that function with a dynamic setup rather
than a static one, so I don't have to manually configure various
things that might get plugged into the internal LAN. Their DHCP
should be able to ask for and get an IP address from P2
automatically.

All you need for that is to run dhcpd on the server machine.


See the other post where I discover DHCP on my install CDROM. D'OH!

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