transition from HP-UX DHCP/BOOTP to ISC DHCP on Linux

[Simon Hobson]

Maciej Soltysiak wrote:

>In /etc/bootptab I have lots (hundreds) of valid static addresses. 
>The format is known I guess, because I found linux software (bootpd) 
>that can run the /etc/bootptab file with little modifications. The 
>contains entries like these:
>
>vectra1:ht=ethernet:ha=080009c3a3d3:ip=a.b.c.1:tc=subnet36b:
>vectra2:ht=ethernet:ha=080009c3a3da:ip=a.b.c.2:tc=subnet36b:



>So I guess I would need to have all the bootptab entries converted 
>to the host { }; clauses of isc dhcp3. I thought I could write a 
>program in python to do that, but maybe you guys have a better way 
>of handling it all.


I don't know if there is already a program written to do that, but in 
any case it's a relatively trivial program in whatever language you 
are comfortable in. You don't need to worry about processing 
efficiency or elegance as it's a single use program.

So yes, you are on the right lines.