[OpenWrt-Devel] what's the relation with dnsmasq and dhcp ?

[Alan.Hoo]

hello everyone

I made a very weird discover , when I disable dnsmasq service on router( perform "/etc/init.d/dnsmasq disable" on OpenWRT System) , all devices could not connect to my Router by dhcp.

why ? it's very confused me ,



BR

Alan.Hoo,Code Monkey

MSFT

[Hannu Nyman]

Post by Alan.Hoo
I made a very weird discover , when I disable dnsmasq service on router(

perform "/etc/init.d/dnsmasq disable" on OpenWRT System) , all devices could
not connect to my Router by dhcp.

No wonder, as dnsmasq is the default dhcp server component in Openwrt.

That is explained in the module's description:
https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/package/network/services/dnsmasq/Makefile#L28

More info at: http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html

[Alan.Hoo]

Thank you!! you are powerful!!

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Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] what's the relation with dnsmasq and dhcp ?

Post by Alan.Hoo
I made a very weird discover , when I disable dnsmasq service on router(

perform "/etc/init.d/dnsmasq disable" on OpenWRT System) , all devices could
not connect to my Router by dhcp.

No wonder, as dnsmasq is the default dhcp server component in Openwrt.

That is explained in the module's description:
https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/package/network/services/dnsmasq/Makefile#L28

More info at: http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html