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<p class=MsoNormal>Glenn, Doug, Simon,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thank you for the excellent feedback. Totally understand
about the history/design decisions of dhcpd. I wish I had a piece of code I
wrote that is still running for (17) years. :^) I was reading up on reserved
leases last night, and it seems that this might help me navigate the requirements
set before us. I would assume that editing the dhcpd.leases file is a
non-starter for all but the most static of environments due to dhcpd writing to
the file and the desire to keep dhcpd running as long as possible. I guess that
leaves omapi/omshell. I looked at that a number of months ago and was able to
perform a few operations but it was pretty cryptic. I should probably take a
second look at that along with the Net::ISC::DHCPd::OMAPI perl stuff. In a
failover environment, would I need to connect to each server in the pair and
set a given lease as ‘reserved’, or would the failover
communication handle that for me? Is there a compiled cookbook for common
dhcpd configurations and/or omapi-related functions?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks again!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Chris<o:p></o:p></p>
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