[Fried Chicken]

In the status page, I have a computer connected, working, pingable, etc. It has an assigned IP address, everything is working fine, but it doesn't show up under "DHCP Clients".

Also many hostnames are left blank. I've chalked this up to some inherent way DHCP works, but it doesn't make sense to me. Shouldn't by necessity every active client have its IP address and hostname listed?

[ho1Aetoo]

Only devices that have received DHCP data since the last reboot are displayed under DHCP Clients.

Clients that may not have received any data:

* manually configured clients that do not use DHCP
* clients using DHCP reservation (without lease expiration)

[blkt]

Computer has previous lease information, router forgot after reboot.

Reconnect or reboot your computer and it should show up in the list.

The nature of embedded devices at least until lease expires, renews.

[the-joker]

Not my experience, see https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1262405#1262405

I then set static leases with an expiry of 15 minutes for these missing devices, rebooted the devices (NAS boxes), this should have triggered a DHCP request from devices and it did, and even after this, not all devices reliably show, I still had missing devices that didn't show up even after accessing them and sending data/receiving data.

These are all wired devices.

Rebooting dd-wrt and devices (power cycle) still same, not all show up, its a random bag of fun.

The only one that reliably shows up is the first static IP assignment and non expiring lease, which is my main dev machine. Also all wifi devices will show up (non expireing leases), but wired YMMV no matter if lease expires.

Dnsmasq afaik is a test version daemon.info dnsmasq[22957]: started, version 2.87test8 cachesize 1500 so this could have some influence on the reliability.

Im running latest 48865, I remember much older builds that always showed all devices without fail, so clearly bugs were introduced upstream, on the project (which is not developed by dd-wrt.

In the meanwhile, tumbleweeds.

[ho1Aetoo]

So that clients with DHCP reservation are not shown under "DHCP clients" is already quite a few years (I can't remember that it was ever different!).

and with me it works exactly as I have described it above.

I just have to log in to such a client and restart the network and suddenly the client is displayed again.

[the-joker]

It use to work fine, I remember this was not an issue, but since at least this year, it started going flaky, perhaps even the last builds from 2021.

Its not a stable release of the dnsmasq anyway... This is the culprit, need to check upstream for bug reports

https://www.mail-archive.com/dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk/ pff, whos got time for that?

[kernel-panic69]

Haven't bothered to see if any post test8 upstream commits have been applied, but.

https://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git;a=summary