Compressed Config

[Ricardo Stella]

Todd Snyder wrote:
> Good day,
>
> I'm setting up a new DHCP server, which will serve about 300 new
> subnets.  My subnets are all exactly the same:
>
> subnet 172.25.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>          range 172.25.1.16 172.25.1.254;
>          option broadcast-address 172.25.1.255;
>          option domain-name "prov0.cfg2";
>          option domain-name-servers 172.25.70.16, 172.25.65.33;
>          option routers 172.25.1.1; 
> } 
>
> And I increment my 3rd octet all the way up to 254.
>
> Same with another network.
>
> Given the sameness of all the subnets, is there a clever way to define
> these so each one isn't declared?  Something similar to the $GENERATE
> directive in named?  It seems like a lot of work when you have hundreds
> of the exact same lines, except 2 numbers changing ...
>
>   
Good old bash script would do it in no time output to individual subnet 
files.  Then just use the Include option on your main config file...  My 
.02...

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