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Re: Linux router AP with reserved IPs on wlan0?

From conover@rahul.net (John Conover)
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Linux router AP with reserved IPs on wlan0?
Date 2021-02-06 20:10 +0100
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Stefan Monnier writes:
> > A wireless router made with hostapd/dnsmasq/dhcpcd is fairly easy, and
> > works well with iptables, with one shortcoming.
> >
> > After antagonizing the Google for hours, I can not find any way to add
> > reserved IPs based on the the MAC address of devices connected on
> > wlan0, (presumably in dhcpcd.conf.) Seems kind of a simple oversight
> > for a wireless AP.
> 
> I'm not familiar with dhcpd, but dnsmasq's built-in DHCP server has been
> perfectly sufficient so far and it lets you specify fixed IPs based on
> MACs by simply putting those in the `/etc/ethers` file.
>

Thank you, Stefan.

Works like a charm. The syntax of /etc/ethers is ':' delimited MAC
address, followed by a space delimiter, followed by the IPv4 IP
address, per IP reservation. That IP address must also be in
/etc/hosts.

    John

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John Conover, conover@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

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Linux router AP with reserved IPs on wlan0? conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2021-02-06 11:30 +0100
  Re: Linux router AP with reserved IPs on wlan0? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-02-06 11:50 +0100
  Re: Linux router AP with reserved IPs on wlan0? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-02-06 13:10 +0100
  Re: Linux router AP with reserved IPs on wlan0? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-02-06 16:20 +0100
    Re: Linux router AP with reserved IPs on wlan0? conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2021-02-06 20:10 +0100
      Re: Linux router AP with reserved IPs on wlan0? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-02-07 10:10 +0100
        Re: Linux router AP with reserved IPs on wlan0? conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2021-02-07 10:40 +0100
  Re: Linux router AP with reserved IPs on wlan0? Gregory Seidman <gsslist+debian@anthropohedron.net> - 2021-02-08 03:30 +0100
    Re: Linux router AP with reserved IPs on wlan0? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-02-08 12:50 +0100
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        Re: Security: OpenWRT vs. Debian [Was:] Re: Linux router AP with  reserved IPs on wlan0? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-02-08 14:40 +0100
          Re: Security: OpenWRT vs. Debian [Was:] Re: Linux router AP with  reserved IPs on wlan0? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-02-08 15:40 +0100
            Re: Security: OpenWRT vs. Debian [Was:] Re: Linux router AP with  reserved IPs on wlan0? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-02-08 16:00 +0100
              Re: Security: OpenWRT vs. Debian [Was:] Re: Linux router AP with  reserved IPs on wlan0? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-02-08 16:30 +0100
                Re: Security: OpenWRT vs. Debian [Was:] Re: Linux router AP with  reserved IPs on wlan0? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-02-08 17:10 +0100
                Re: Security: OpenWRT vs. Debian [Was:] Re: Linux router AP with  reserved IPs on wlan0? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-02-08 21:40 +0100
                Re: Security: OpenWRT vs. Debian [Was:] Re: Linux router AP with  reserved IPs on wlan0? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-02-08 22:50 +0100
                Re: Security: OpenWRT vs. Debian [Was:] Re: Linux router AP with  reserved IPs on wlan0? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-02-09 00:30 +0100
                RE: Security: OpenWRT vs. Debian [Was:] Re: Linux router AP  withreserved IPs on wlan0? Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2021-02-09 13:00 +0100
                Re: Security: OpenWRT vs. Debian [Was:] Re: Linux router AP with reserved IPs on wlan0? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-02-08 17:30 +0100

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