Tomato DHCP (dnsmasq?)

[kzrssk]

Anyone running Tomato know why the IP addresses handed out aren't sequential? I guess it really doesn't matter that much, but even between router reboots, each of the MAC addresses on my network continue to get the same IP addresses.

 

[JackMDS]

I do not know what tomato does.

But in many Routers if an IP was used before for an other MAC address even if the computer withe this MAc is Not on at the time, a new computer when log on would skip the address.

Only if there is No more available addresses it would start to use the Skipped IPs.

 

[kzrssk]

Well, this is even between router reboots. Plus, this has always happened. Even right after I first flashed it, it started handing out staggered IPs. I thought that was probably a security feature at first, but the IPs have always remained the same per computer/MAC address.

I've verified that Tomato uses dnsmasq. Maybe it's just a feature, or possibly a bug...