What do these 3 options on my router do? (DD-WRT Firmware)?

Question

"Use DNSMasq for DHCP"
"Use DNSMasq for DNS"
"DHCP-Authoritative"

Also:
"Force reconnect"
"STP"
"Multi Link"
"PPP Compression"

The top three are the major ones I want to know about though.

Answer 1

"Use DNSMasq for DHCP" is use the server (see below) as the database for DHCP entries, don't run a separate DHCP service. Saves memory.

"Use DNSMasq for DNS" means to run a service that acts as a DNS forward, instead of having each client talk to a remote DNS server.

"DHCP-Authoritative" says you are the only DHCP server on this network and if someone tries to renew a lease that is invalid, send it a DHCPNAK to have it reset.

Answer 2

Dd-wrt Dnsmasq

Answer 3

Dhcp-authoritative

Answer 4

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RE:

What do these 3 options on my router do? (DD-WRT Firmware)?

"Use DNSMasq for DHCP"

"Use DNSMasq for DNS"

"DHCP-Authoritative"



Also:

"Force reconnect"

"STP"

"Multi Link"

"PPP Compression"



The top three are the major ones I want to know about though.