Resending: feeding events to dhcp client state machine

[bramkuma]

Resending this question : Do you have some thoughts on this ?

Thanks
Bhuvana 


On 4/25/12 12:12 PM, "bramkuma" <bramkuma at cisco.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone, 
> 
> I¹m using the isc-dhcp-4.2.1 source-code. I¹ve integrated the dhcp-client as a
> library whose functions I can call from some applications in my OS (running a
> customized version of linux). I have 2 questions
> 
> 1. I want to feed events to the dhcp-client state machine from the
> outside-system, as a response to some stimuli. How do I go about doing this ?
> I see the omapi listener objects defined in  dhcp_common_objects_setup() under
> comon/comapi.c, but I don¹t see the events getting used anywhere ( For
> example: dhcp_control_set_value).
> 
> Can someone throw some light on this ?
> 
> 2. Also, how do I make the dhcp-client dynamically add and remove interfaces ?
> I see that the main() goes through a discover_interfaces() call. This flow is
> actually common to client, server and relay. The only way I can think of doing
> this is to return without doing discover_interfaces() and then feed events to
> the state-machine for a new add or remove.
> 
> Is there a better way to handle this situation ?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Bhuvana 
> 

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