API???

[Werner Otto]

good stuff, a starting point. Would you know how I go about obtaining DHCP
Request and Offer packets. I guess hours of reading will give me the answer,
but that is what you guys are here for ;-). Last one I promise...

On 14/09/2007, Daniel Paquet <daniel.paquet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just a thing on OMAPI there is a memory leaks in it and if you do alot
> of queries your dhcp process will eventually eat up all your server's
> memory.
>
> I already submited a bug about this with the output of valgrind.
>
> On 9/14/07, Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd at firmix.at> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 14:03 +0100, Werner Otto wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Why is it that ISC DHCP does not have a server side API when Microsoft
> doen?
> >
> > - Did you look into the OMAPI thing?
> > - Because no one needed and implemented it.
> > - Because most ideas from MSFT are of questionable value if you do not
> > happen
> >   to fit to their idea of operation of the service (which implies
> > usually SOHO
> >   setups).
> >   See: ISC-dhcpd is (similar to other daemons) configured with a textual
> > config
> >   file. This has the advantage that you can edit it almost anywhere with
> > any
> >   editor, put it into a SCM, generate it easily from templates or
> > scripts (which
> >   are done in minutes and can grow if the need grows - no need to
> > program or buy
> >   some fat "provisioning application").
> >   And you really *want* that if you have more then 5 hosts on it.
> >   And the first interesting question is therefore: What happens with
> >   run-time changed values in such an environment?
> >
> >         Bernd
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> Daniel Paquet
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Werner Otto
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