From: Steve Hideg (hideg@saintmarys.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 18:59:49 CDT
You have one entry per host in dhcpd.conf now. Why reproduce the
data? Unless there's some compelling reason to put the data for each
host in a database, I'm going to stick with comment fields in
dhcpd.conf. (Of course, we only ave a little over 800 hosts. We're
probably not facing scaleability issues).
At 6:20 PM -0500 9/21/00, Peter Valian wrote:
>Nick,
>
>The MySQL database idea is one I've gone back and forth on for a while.
>I really want to database the whole thing and have a script build the
>dhcpd.conf from there but I think that should be an option...I don't
>think it would be fair to require a MySQL database backend.
>
>So...I really don't know what to do...the whole simplicity/functionality
>tradeoff.
>
>I may have it go the other way around...write it directly to the conf
>file *and* (if you wish) insert it into a database.
>
>There will be some database tie-ins...i don't know to what extent.
>
>What do you guys think?
>
>-peter
>
>
>> I don't know if this has been done or not but when you do a
>> search for mac address or username it is case sensitive. I
>> added code to uppercase everything when it adds the info to
>> the dhcpd.conf.new file and to upercase a query done in the
>> netreg admin page. I assume that someone has done this
>> already but if not it would be nice to have this in version
>> 2. I can give you the addition to the perl code if needed.
>>
>> With your MySQL idea are you talking about having a true
>> database in MySQL? Where when the students register it
>> would input there info into the database and when the server
>> refreshes it simply queries the SQL database and writes a
>> dhcpd.conf file? This is what we were thinking of doing at
>> University Wisconsin Whitewater. If this is what you ment
>> then great! If not could something like this be done in
>> version 2? I know we are looking into this idea...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nick Ciesinski
>> Network Administrator Assistant, Residence Life
>> UW-Whitewater
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