[libvirt] Another curiosity question

All doc and the libvirt software itself is very insistent that dhcp4 will be supported on one and only one IPv4 subnetwork. Why is true? Certainly dnsmasq supports multiple dhcp-range definitions and the actual parameters passed to dnsmasq would be more or less the same! I can understand some restriction if there were systems libvirt suports which does not support the multi-dhcp per interface but not the blanket restriction. This, this is OK: ------------------------------------------------------ <ip address='172.16.6.1' prefix='16'> <dhcp> <range start='172.16.6.128' end='172.16.6.254' /> <range start='172.16.7.128' end='172.16.7.254' /> </dhcp> </ip> ------------------------------------------------------ but this is not: ------------------------------------------------------ <ip address='172.16.6.1' prefix='16'> <dhcp> <range start='172.16.6.128' end='172.16.6.254' /> <range start='172.16.7.128' end='172.16.7.254' /> </dhcp> </ip> <ip address='172.16.7.1' prefix='16'> <dhcp> <range start='172.16.7.128' end='172.16.7.254' /> </dhcp> </ip> ------------------------------------------------------ In both cases, the parameters passed to dnsmasq are: ---------------------------------------------------- dhcp-range=172.16.6.128,172.16.6.254 dhcp-range=172.16.7.128,172.16.7.254 ---------------------------------------------------- and, for dhcp, dnsmasq does not care about the specific addresses since it does its own filtering by listening on 0.0.0.0:67/68 Comments? Gene