[Maintain-dev] [JIRA] Commented: (MNT-1380) Associate Subnets with Workgroups

Greg Connor (JIRA) jira at osuosl.org
Sat Feb 17 00:15:57 PST 2007


     [ http://bugs.osuosl.org/browse/MNT-1380?page=comments#action_11253 ]
     
Greg Connor commented on MNT-1380:
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This issue also applies to Maintain 3.0.  Can you reopen it and move it there or should I submit a new one?

The underlying problem is that DHCPD config must list the subnets that a server is primary-for, and secondary-for, but must NOT list other subnets that are neither primary nor secondary. This requires writing subnets to different files. 

My proposed patch had the following parts: 
  Add "Workgroup" field to subnets 
  Add "Failover peer" field to workgroups 
  Allow subnets to be part of workgroups, not just hosts 
  Allow different files to be created for different DHCP peers. 

The "Workgroup" change was just one possible way to organize subnets into different groups, and provides some other bonuses as well (such as being able to apply dhcp options to hundreds of subnets without making them global or hand-editing config files). It's not required for solving the >2 DHCP server problem, but there must be something in the user interface somewhere allowing subnets to go to different files. 

We won't be able to use Maintain 3.0 if it doesn't correctly handle >2 dhcpd servers. Subnets-in-workgroups would be nice but not 100% required. I put a fair amount of effort into creating the patch I submitted... hopefully that doesn't mean our site is now isolated on a branch of our own and have lost the ability to benefit from future Maintain versions and updates. 

Thanks for any info... 

> Associate Subnets with Workgroups
> ---------------------------------
>
>          Key: MNT-1380
>          URL: http://bugs.osuosl.org/browse/MNT-1380
>      Project: Maintain
>         Type: Improvement
>     Versions: 2.4.0
>  Environment: Patch has been tested on: RedHat Enterprise Server 3.0
>     Reporter: Greg Connor
>     Assignee: Michael Clay
>     Priority: Minor

>
>
> Allow Subnets to be associated with Workgroups.  This will provide a better way to control DHCP options for a large number of subnets.  The dhcpd.conf file created by this will put subnet{} sections inside of group{} sections.
> See proposed patch posted at http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/maintain-dev/2005-July/000102.html.  The patch is intended to be applied over the 2.4.2rc2 tar file.
> (Note that the proposed patch also alters failover and allows more than 2 dhcp servers.  It is possible to make the change to Subnet::Workgroup on its own without the failover changes, but some work may be repeated if so.)

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