[pve-devel] internal dhcp server, where to put dhcp configuration ?

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Sat Aug 24 17:13:35 CEST 2013


> only routed mode ? I would like also have dhcp on bridged and nat network.

Understand now  (after reading the conversation from may).

> I agreed to have nic ip configuration in vm, but when you launch dnsmasq,
> you need to specify the network range for the bridge.
> (Or we need to compute the ranges from the vms configurations)

Compute the ranges  should not be a problem (looks simple to me).
 
> Currently libvirt define the dhcp range on each bridge
> 
> http://libvirt.org/formatnetwork.html
> 
> >>Running a full featured dhcp server on a bridge is something different
> >>for me. Please can you clarify what usage scenario do you think about
> >>exactly?
> 
> What I have in mind is at least basic ip auto-configuration of network card in
> any case (bridge,routed,nat).
> including gateway,dns-server (option domain-name-servers), domain
> (option domain-name ).
> 
> 
> with for bridge+nat, dhcp leases across nodes to keep the ip configuration
> between live migration

We already had a solution for cluster wide lease in May? Although, we only
have static IP assignment (from VM config), so I am not sure if we really need
that?



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