I don't want my DHCP to be a default gateway

I have a device which runs a DHCP server. When I connect it with USB to my computer, the PC gets an IP address and the device becomes the default gateway. I just want the device to agree on IP addresses and not default gateway. Is this possible?

I was using udhcpd but I got problems with authoritative mode so I switched to dnsmasq.

The PC is already connected to another network witch should contain the default gateway.

EDIT :

Here is a little diagram of how it is setup

[ Embedded Network #1 ] ----- [ PC ] ----- [ Corporate Network #2 ]

What is important here is that Net#1 has no knowledge of Net#2, its dhcp server and its default gateway

EDIT 2 :

Ok, the parameter in /etc/dnsmasq.conf should be about dhcp-option=3
If I don't specify this parameter well, there is no effect. According to this example config.

# Disable default gateway
#dhcp-option=3

This does not disable the gateway, this has no effect

EDIT 3 :

ok dhcp-option=3 DOES have an effect (Silly me). However just renewing ip is not enough for windows xp to forget about the old one


Certainly possible - just reconfigure the device to not hand out a gateway over DHCP.

You probably need to provide more information to get a useful response.

add to the conf file

dhcp-option=3
dhcp-option=6

3 disables default router (gateway) and 6 disables DNS


I'm not sure if dnsmasq will operate the way you want. I use isc-dhcp-server and although it's not the most lightweight DHCP server, if you leave out the option routers stanza, it won't hand out any information for the default gateway. I used to use udhcpd as well until I needed DHCP reservations.

You also might try configuring dnsmasq to hand out whatever IP your current default gateway as its default gateway as @BillThor suggested, or see what happens when you hand out 0.0.0.0