Re: dnsmasq dhcp failure

interesting, I too have seen the no DHCP lease to a windows 7 client and still 
working for android & linux.  This is on fast hardware with plenty of memory.  
I had just put it down to windows, but it looks like there is more involved.  

cheers
Marko 

On Saturday, 26 November 2022 9:02:06 AM AEDT Erich Titl wrote:
> Hi Folks
> 
> News on the dhcp front
> 
> As reported before my dnsmasq installation would not hand out leases to 
> my winblows 10 over Wifi, well through a bridged configuration and an 
> external AP. Funny enough Android could get an address.
> 
> It may be noted that the system is _very_ old, a WRAP with really little 
> memory.
> 
> Also I found that for a certain time dhcp would run fine after system 
> boot. After some time it just degenerated.
> 
> Now I disabled dhcp in dnsmasq and installed the good old isc-dhcpserver 
> aka dhcpd, configured it accordingly and bingo, my win10 system gets its 
> address reliably and my Android system gets it _fast_.
> 
> I have seen this behaviour only on old systems with _very_ little 
> memory, I tend to still use them.
> 
> For the moment this configuration appears to be stable, but time will tell.
> 
> cheers
> 
> ET





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