Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 21:12:51 +0300 From: "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: "Pieter Donche" <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> Cc: "mail.list freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: add/change/delete dhcpd.conf entries Message-ID: <991123400812091012s5f9eac91i72724d8d834014b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0812091752270.19005@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be> References: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0812091752270.19005@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be>
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On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be>wrote: > In a DHCP server managing fixed IP addresses, one needs to make changes > often: new people need their Mac address given a IP addres, people leaving > need to be deleted, people changing an old for a new computer need a Mac > address change for the same IP, etc... > > All this information is recorded in the /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf file. > I know, there is the omapi command shell (/usr/local/bin/omshell) but as > far as I can see, you can only use it interactively. Or am I wrong? > > I would love to have a simple command line tool that allows you to make > changes to your dhcpd.conf file without needing to use an > editor or omapi. > > e.g. for a new entry, something like: > # dhcpdmgr -A 175.134.34.128 -c "John.Adams PC" -i "00:34:1A:23:4A:0F" > 175.134.34 > which would add IP 175.134.34.128 in subnet 175.134.3 for mac address > 00:34:1A:23:4A:0F with a comment "John.Adams PC" > > and with other options for delete (-D), make changes to comment, IP or Mac, > etc... > > Does anyone have such a command line tool? Webmin will easily allow you to do that! Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Okay guys. This is Kenya. You pay taxes because you feel philanthropic, unlike our MPs!" -- Kenneth Marende, Speaker, 10th Parilament.
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