[kea-dev] Client classification design

[Tomek Mrugalski]

On 15.10.2015 19:06, Tomek Mrugalski wrote:
> On 15.10.2015 05:09, Shawn Routhier wrote:
>> 4) It would be quite useful to have some method to help the admin debug these things.  In ISC DHCP 
>> the standard way is to insert a statement that will log something into the class definition 
>> or use of class in a subnet.  This provides a way for the admin to see if they wrote the
>> matching statements correctly for the given clients.
> This will be taken case with a dedicated logger in the expressions
> library. Added G.9 requirement to explicitly state that.
> 
>> If we go with proposal 1 it would seem simple enough to have the class definitions be global
>> while the use of the classes would be only per subnet in phase 1.  It would also seem that we
>> would then be able to extend the global class definition to add option data in phase 2.
>>
>> To me it seems like it will be easier to expand something like proposal 1 into phase 2 rather
>> than expanding proposal 2.  It also may be a bit easier for people to update their configuration
>> files .
> Ack. So it's now a tie:
> Proposal 1: 1
> Proposal 2: 1
Oops, I forgot about Francis's vote. But we still have a tie, as he
prefers proposal 3 :)

Tomek