maybe you can add on to dnsmasq to do the job. Seems like a php registration page that pulls the HW address could do such a thing. Reserving a dhcp address in dnsmasq is as easy as adding the HW address & host name into /etc/ethers, matching a ipaddress to the same host name in /etc/hosts then a quick HUP I don't think you have to use the /etc/hosts file either iirc you can tell dnsmasq to read another file in addition to /etc/hosts
On 7/8/05, Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I am looking for some software that I can put on my dhcp server and > force people to register to get a valid IP address. I am not really > looking for anything that does authentication, just something that > would be based on the "honor system" so that I can pair MAC addresses > with a name. We often have visitors here who do not have a valid UNIX > or other account, so auth would be nice but likely is not easily > doable unless I create accounts for visitors. I found > www.netreg.org<http://www.netreg.org> > and am considering using that software, but I was interested in > hearing from anyone who knows about a similar or better product. > > Thanks, > Shannon > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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My bad. -- Joey Kelly < Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant > http://joeykelly.net "I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." --- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20050714/10d8c1fd/attachment.bin From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 14 10:37:38 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Baudouin) Date: Thu Jul 14 10:36:50 2005 Subject: [brlug-general] Linux "praise report" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All, Last night I was helping a friend with his PC. He is a self-employed IT consultant and is exclusively a Windows dood. Some background: He buys just about exclusively from Dell. I have tried to get him to purchase AMD but I don't think any big box vendors allow financing on AMD Opteron workstations (At least, SUN doesn't and we couldn't find any suitable machines from HP's site at the time of the purchase). His PC is a Precision workstation featuring dual Xeon processors , 2GB of RAM and a supposed Raid-1 160GB SATA array. A few days ago his primary hard disk crashed (MAXTOR = SHIT). No worries, he thought, just boot off of the second mirrored drive and get a RMA back from Dell. He reboots only to find that Dell failed to set up the mirrored drive and the second drive was only sitting out there unused. He reinstalls Windows on the second good disk and attempts to read the data off of the bad one, which just results in infinite CHKDSK operations. He begins pondering the thousand+dollars in data recovery costs (as a self-employed consultant, his data is priceless) when I come to the rescue with a bootable Gentoo Linux 2005.0 x86-64 disc. He brings his bad disk over to my house along with a second good disk to copy the data onto ( I have nothing approaching 160 GB of free space :) ) I am able to plug the bad disk into the onboard Nvidia SATA contorller and immediately mount it and get a directory listing. While this indeed looked promising, the lack of NTFS write support meant I would have to create a VFAT filesystem on the second disk to ensure that his new Windows installation could read the recovered data. Using cfdisk and mkfs.vfat fails miserably with any kind of passed partition size (bug in the 64-bit version of mkfs.vfat?), so I am then forced to boot a Win98SE installation disk to create a 160GB Fat32 partition. This takes about an hour to create and format, so we go play some XBOX in the interim. To make a too-long story short, we were able to copy about 90% of the data. We got some intermittent NTFS seek and sector errors, but every 100% critical piece of data was salvaged despite the intermittent copy errors while doing a cp -Rv. All of his recent wedding and honeymoon pictures (he married a friend of me and my wife's from HS) were salvaged. 80% of his project data was salvaged. Just goes to show that the best thing to do is be versatile. Some tools are better for certain jobs, and in this case Linux and its included NTFS ro-support is the best tool for the job.
