setup page with subnet mask change not working

[gaganwalia]

If I use a subnet of 255.0.0.0 and starting IP address of 10.0.0.1 (router IP) the setup page will not let me change the number of dhcp clients above 254 whereas this subnet should allow over 16 million ips.

currenty i am doing this using dnsmasq options as follows by using this in the startup script:

killall dnsmasq rm /tmp/dnsmasq.conf echo "interface=br0" >> /tmp/dnsmasq.conf echo "resolv-file=/tmp/resolv.dnsmasq" >> /tmp/dnsmasq.conf echo "domain=HHP-600N" >> /tmp/dnsmasq.conf echo "dhcp-leasefile=/tmp/dnsmasq.leases" >> /tmp/dnsmasq.conf echo "dhcp-lease-max=50000" >> /tmp/dnsmasq.conf echo "dhcp-option=lan,3,10.0.0.1" >> /tmp/dnsmasq.conf echo "dhcp-authoritative" >> /tmp/dnsmasq.conf echo "dhcp-range=lan,10.0.1.0,10.255.255.254,255.0.0.0,1440m" >> /tmp/dnsmasq.conf echo "stop-dns-rebind" >> /tmp/dnsmasq.conf dnsmasq --conf-file=/tmp/dnsmasq.conf

Now once i do this, the setup page and status pages still do not shopw the correct values from nvram. It is a trivial task for the dd-wrt gurus to add this functionality as many netgear routers have this by default.

Having this functionality would be really nice.

[Sash]

since this feature ist NOT needed for private use i see no need to implement it.

[BrainSlayer]

right now the standard dhcp implementation does only provide class c like networks. in future this might change. but i have no timeline yet for that change