From: Greg (glawler@westmont.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 19:24:53 CDT
i was stoked to hear that there would be a database tie in...
it does increase the complexity for a novice user though... now that
mysql is open,
i think we will be seeing it a lot more in stuff like this.
my 2 bits worth.
greg
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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