On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:53:12PM +0000, John D. Shearer wrote:
> I would like to submit a new module for consideration but want some feedback
> first. The module name is Net::DHCPparse. The concept is that you give it
> an ISC 'dhcpd.leases' file (or a copy) and it will parse that file and return
> a hash with the keys being the IP address contained in the leases and the values
> being a fixed length record containing the IP address, most recent lease timestamp,
> MAC address, and client name.
>
> I have seen people asking about a DHCP parsing program and I have been using
> this routine for some time with great success. Some have balked at the fixed
> length record, but I like it for web page formatting and the pod contains a
> short script to parse the record into individual fields if needed (using unpack).
>
>
> Any thoughts on this would be appreciated - especially on naming.
Well, it should be able to parse any IHC config files (as they're all
the same syntax) -- at least BIND and DHCP, off the top of my head. It
would be good if the name reflected that level of generality.
Also, the Net:: namespace is all about network protocols, not file
formats or parsing. How about Text::IHCparse?
- Kurt
