RE: NetReg: A few NetReg/DHCP questions

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From: Michael King (mking@bridgew.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 09 2003 - 17:54:52 CST

Jennifer,

Just a quick question on Point 2.

        How do you intend for the helpdesk worker to get the MAC address?
                NetReg, at it's simplest level, is just creating host entries in the ISC
Dhcp server's dhcpd.conf file. The front-end webpages, pull the MAC address
out automatically when a unregistered client hits the webpage.
        Do you intend for your users to bring the machines to the helpdesk? (this
is the end result of where you seeming to be going)
        I have created a webpage, that instead of Username / password for text
boxes, it has MAC address and Username, but I protect this page, and only
use it when I'm manually entering a device that cannot display a webpage. I
do not allow my helpdesk desk to access it, mainly because I did not create
any error checking for it, so the potential for a non-valid entry to take
down the server exists.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-netreg@southwestern.edu
[mailto:owner-netreg@southwestern.edu]On Behalf Of Jennifer Mehl
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 4:24 PM
To: netreg@southwestern.edu
Subject: NetReg: A few NetReg/DHCP questions

Hi Everyone,

I've got the LDAP authentication working well with NetReg. What a
great piece of software-- thanks to all who contributed to the code!

I have a few more questions for you all:

1) Is anyone encrypting the communications between the NetReg scripts
and the LDAP server using SSL? If so, could you explain how to set
this up?

2) For our initial DHCP roll-out, our Help Desk will be registering
machines. I'd like to modify the LDAP registration model so that the
Help Desk staff can sit at the computer to be registered, enter only
the LDAP username of the person since they obviously do not have
passwords. This would allow us to register machines ourselves at the
beginning, and then roll it out to users after the initial deployment
is finished.

Any suggestions? Is anyone doing anything like this now?

3) Is anyone doing DHCP failover with their NetReg boxes? I'm curious
how to set this up so that the known host info in dhcpd.conf would be
replicated to the second box. Are you all putting NetReg on the
secondary/backup DHCP box as well? Just curious how you all are doing
this.

Thanks in advance for your feedback and ideas.

Sincerely,
Jennifer 

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Jennifer Mehl
Network Engineer, IT - Network Services
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (MIT)
5 Cambridge Center
Cambridge MA 02142

617.258.8930 voice
617.258.5121 fax

mehl@wi.mit.edu

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