A few days back Simon, the developer of DNSmasq, added an option for DNSmasq to serve IPs in a sequential manner rather than based on a hash of the MAC address, upon my request.
He was kind enough to implement it, allowing me to use DNSmasq as a DNS, DHCP, PXE & TFTP daemon for my VMware ESXi automated deployments.
This feature is available in version 2.58 test 4. I tested it on a bunch of virtual machines simulating an ESXi installation and everything went smooth.
I have to note: If you're using it for ESXi deployments, you may want to set the lease expiration time to infinite because the ESXi installer sends a lease release after the installation is done, causing subsequent hosts to get the same IP.
Big thanks go to Simon!
He was kind enough to implement it, allowing me to use DNSmasq as a DNS, DHCP, PXE & TFTP daemon for my VMware ESXi automated deployments.
This feature is available in version 2.58 test 4. I tested it on a bunch of virtual machines simulating an ESXi installation and everything went smooth.
I have to note: If you're using it for ESXi deployments, you may want to set the lease expiration time to infinite because the ESXi installer sends a lease release after the installation is done, causing subsequent hosts to get the same IP.
Big thanks go to Simon!
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