[KLUG Members] dhcpd

[Adam Williams]

>>>Does anyone know if ISC DHCP provides any kind of API or hooks for looking
>>>up data external to the config file?  I'd like to be able to restrain its
>>>dolling out an IP except to MACs found in the DSA.  Bieng able to trigger an 
>>>event on lease grant/renweal/expire would be nice to.  But I've never seen 
>>>anything like this.
>>Guess it's time to look through the source code for dhcpd ... yuck!
>I just found -
>http://www.newwave.net/~masneyb/
>where there is an ISC DHCP LDAP patch. which the author claims will be in the
>next release.  It only handles configuration, and I'd REALLY like the lease
>database available, but it is a start.

I've posted LDAP enabled ISC DHCP RPMs on my projects page -
http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/projects/awilliams/ - if anyone wants to
play with them.  Wow, the build mechanism for dhcpd is wierd.... sort of
sendmailish.