Tracking historical lease information

[David Carlin]

This might be the simplest approach..  I've found this article that
should help me navigate the DHCP entries in syslog:

http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_DHCPGeneralOperationandClientFiniteStateMachine.htm

I was hoping for a canned solution as it seems there are a lot of
different syslog messages that need to be interpreted to know what MAC
address was assigned a lease at a given point in time.

Its not the scripting that concerns me, its making 100% sure I
interpret the logs properly :)

David

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Glenn Satchell
<glenn.satchell at uniq.com.au> wrote:

> It's trivial to use syslog to log dhcp entries, then you can keep the syslog
> files for as long as you like. A script to scan those shouldn't be too
> difficult to find or write.