Date: 31 Oct 1999 20:00:58 -0500 From: Kevin Street <street@iname.com> To: "Erik Stainsby" <stainsby@lets.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: reframe of DHCP question Message-ID: <87u2n781px.fsf@mired.eh.local> In-Reply-To: "Erik Stainsby"'s message of "Sun, 31 Oct 1999 16:10:31 -0800" References: <007b01bf23fd$83e23000$339fefcc@vpl.vancouver.bc.ca>
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"Erik Stainsby" <stainsby@lets.net> writes: > If I am running a FBSD box as a DHCP'd dial-up workstation, where on this > box > might I be able to read the expiry time set when the licence was granted? > > What I wish to do is use this value as a failsafe timeout on the remote ed > of a > temporary-VPN setup. When the workstation dials in to the ISP, I would like > to read my IP and the expirarion time from this machine. I will then > submit > these values to a daemon on my production server, which will establish my > VPN. man dhclient man dhclient-script It's in /var/db/dhclient.leases but better would be to do this when dhclient-script gets run, which happens every time a lease gets renewed. You can hang your local scripts from some hooks in dhclient-script. -- Kevin Street street@iname.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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