On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Simon Kelley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21/05/12 11:34, Ian Rose wrote: >> Is it possible to send a message to the client device when an IP address >> is allocated via DHCP? This would only be a static info message for my >> purposes, and it wouldn't matter much if some clients didn't support >> showing it and so ignored it. >> >> Apparently Apple Wi-Fi routers do this, but I'm not sure if this is a >> vendor-specific addition or something that other DHCP servers are >> capable of too. >> >> Thanks. >> > > The closest to useful information I could Google-up was this: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/dhcpd-welcome-message-767020/ > > which indicates that it's a vendor specific option, but not which. > > If you can find out what DHCP option is used, dnsmasq can almost > certainly be configured to send it. > > Maybe ask Apple support?
Or use packet capture to see the traffic from an Apple router... > > > Simon. > > > _______________________________________________ > Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
