mclt Values, was 2 Instances of dhcp on Same Platform

Martin McCormick martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu
Mon Feb 26 20:56:23 UTC 2007


"David W. Hankins" writes:
> I'd hate to recommend using OMAPI as I know how painful it is to
> use it effectively.  I also have no plans to perpetuate it.
> 
> But it can absolutely do the thing you describe today, which is
> at least better than the vaporous alternative I'd rather we had.

	I hope whatever replaces omapi is script-friendly, also.
I think I once compared the idea to the nsupdate utility for
bind.  It is easily incorporated in to shell scripts and other
automation.  Omapi isn't fun, but at least it is here and can be
scripted in to an expect script which can be created by the same
back end that now sends out new dhcpd.conf configurations so this
is the best possible news.  Thanks for the warning about making
sure both servers see the same omapi events.  The fact that
static addresses aren't part of any pools means that they don't
fall in to the failover synchronization system.  Some method of
syncing them might be a good idea when another external control
mechanism is developed.

	Again thanks to you and Glenn Satchell for getting me/us
on to a  better design.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group


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