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authorPaul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com>2021-09-24 14:57:38 +0300
committerSimon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>2021-09-24 14:46:25 +0100
commitef2f8d70d22b817e1faf96efd42c61879e25c723 (patch)
treeb41e7c304e9da064c551db61153180f5ce674292
parentd9995a1add30aed4d4d34fd58ae640c205e6cdd7 (diff)
downloaddnsmasq-ef2f8d70d22b817e1faf96efd42c61879e25c723.tar.gz
manpage: clarify tags: semantics for --dhcp-host
Mention that several tags can be specified and instruct the user that some other match must still be provided for the directive to have any effect.
-rw-r--r--man/dnsmasq.87
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/dnsmasq.8 b/man/dnsmasq.8
index f04ae13..a71610c 100644
--- a/man/dnsmasq.8
+++ b/man/dnsmasq.8
@@ -1037,7 +1037,7 @@ is also included, as described in RFC-3775 section 7.3.
tells dnsmasq to advertise the prefix without the on-link (aka L) bit set.
.TP
-.B \-G, --dhcp-host=[<hwaddr>][,id:<client_id>|*][,set:<tag>][tag:<tag>][,<ipaddr>][,<hostname>][,<lease_time>][,ignore]
+.B \-G, --dhcp-host=[<hwaddr>][,id:<client_id>|*][,set:<tag>][,tag:<tag>][,<ipaddr>][,<hostname>][,<lease_time>][,ignore]
Specify per host parameters for the DHCP server. This allows a machine
with a particular hardware address to be always allocated the same
hostname, IP address and lease time. A hostname specified like this
@@ -1136,7 +1136,10 @@ ignore requests from unknown machines using
If the host matches only a \fB--dhcp-host\fP directive which cannot
be used because it specifies an address on different subnet, the tag "known-othernet" is set.
-The tag:<tag> construct filters which dhcp-host directives are used. Tagged directives are used in preference to untagged ones.
+The tag:<tag> construct filters which dhcp-host directives are used; more than
+one can be provided, in this case the request must match all of them. Tagged
+directives are used in preference to untagged ones. Note that one of <hwaddr>,
+<client_id> or <hostname> still needs to be specified (can be a wildcard).
Ethernet addresses (but not client-ids) may have
wildcard bytes, so for example