logging the lease time *sent* to clients in an "on commit" block

[Phil Mayers]

Niall O'Reilly wrote:
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> On 18 May 2007, at 16:44, Phil Mayers wrote:
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>> What syntax can I use to get the ACTUAL IP address lease time (option
>> 51) the server sends to the client? We have a need to do detailed
>> logging of leases handed out including the lease time.
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> 	Why use an "on commit" action to duplicate what dhcpd is already
> 	writing to the leases file?
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> 	Parsing the leases file "offline" at regular intervals can't be
> 	much more difficult than doing the same with your logs, and avoids
> 	extra processing during allocation or renewal of each lease.

Well, thanks for the suggestion but that's not really what I'm looking 
for, for two reasons:

  1. the leases file doesn't list fixed addresses
  2. I'm looking for <20 seconds turnaround time between the lease 
granted and it making it into the logging system.

There are loads of ways to work around this; since I'm generating the 
DHCP configs and our config is simple enough that lease times are 
dependent on IP address only, I could dump a mapping of IP -> leasetime 
at config generation time; but it seems silly that the "on commit" has 
access to all the info except that.

Does anyone know if it's possible or not?