DHCPgen Beta 1 Released

KermMartian · Posted: 18 Jan 2009 09:58:28 pm Post subject: DHCPgen Beta 1 Released

DHCPgen is a PHP package to manage ISC DHCPD configuration files, much as programs like phpMyAdmin manage the contents of MySQL databases through a web interface. DHCPgen is unique in that it not only stores and organizes data and generates dhcpd.conf files, it can also automatically install such files, make sure that the update succeeded, and revert the change if it failed for some reason. In addition, it has been carefully written to permit updating a DHCP server running on either a local or remote machine, particularly important if your webserver and your DHCP server are separate physical or virtual machines. Please help me to debug it by downloading and installing DHCPgen!

You can download it at the link below; the README and the install.php script should take care of all of your questions, but of course post in the attached topic with any feedback and comments and suggestions. Oh, and screenshots are at the link below too.

DHCPgen Beta 1

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KermMartian · Posted: 06 Feb 2009 11:36:55 am Post subject:

Since you are all far too lazy to actually test this out, I put it on a bunch of Gentoo and Ubuntu systems and ran it through its paces. I was happier with its performance on Gentoo than on Ubuntu, but it seemed to work fine for both, and also worked for both a single system running Apache and DHCPd, and two machines, one running Apache, the other running DHCPd. I want to add a search feature, which should be useful for larger tables, then I will finalize the design and release 1.0 RC1. I'd appreciate some feedback from anyone here who uses DHCPd in a production environment and would be willing to give it a spin.
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Kllrnohj · $/=\$ PH34R |\/|3 Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 8189

Hey, you never tested kllrix, so I didn't test DHCPgen :p

Honestly I just have no use for DHCPgen, hence I didn't try it Smile

I'm not really sure how its useful or what benefits it offers...
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KermMartian · Posted: 06 Feb 2009 11:52:18 am Post subject:

foamy3 · Posted: 06 Feb 2009 12:14:11 pm Post subject:

I had to google to figure out what DHCP was...
Sorry.
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elfprince13 · Posted: 06 Feb 2009 12:34:04 pm Post subject:

Kllrnohj · $/=\$ PH34R |\/|3 Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 8189

KermMartian · Posted: 06 Feb 2009 01:41:24 pm Post subject:

Right, because your network is small enough that your router is your DHCP server. Smile

The network I used to manage here is large enough that we need a dedicated machine to do DHCP and DNS.
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foamy3 · Posted: 06 Feb 2009 08:21:54 pm Post subject:

KermMartian · Posted: 09 Feb 2009 04:08:50 pm Post subject:

OK, I did a ton of debugging on various distros and systems, added some more debug info for failed config file installing, added a search feature, so I think this is just about ready to go. Is it worth it to go the RC route, or should I just jump straight into 1.0?
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elfprince13 · Posted: 09 Feb 2009 06:46:12 pm Post subject:

KermMartian · Posted: 09 Feb 2009 10:02:48 pm Post subject: