[1228] in Moira
Ethernet Addresses is moira
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Braun)
Sat Jan 2 18:54:49 1999
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 16:54:41 -0700 (MST)
From: Matt Braun <matt@MIT.EDU>
To: network@MIT.EDU, tom@MIT.EDU
Cc: moiradev@MIT.EDU
Dan has been working on integrating print support into moira and one thing we
ran into was the need to have moira know the ethernet address of each printer
for bootp.
Originally, Dan put this in the new printer table, but we think it would be
better from a schema point of view to have that data in the machine table.
So, I have two proposals:
1) We implement this with the MAC address in the machine table, however with
no client change for updating that from the machine menu. The only client way
to update this info would be through the printer menu (or mrtest / sql).
2) We implemenent this with the MAC address in machine as above, but change
ahst / uhst and moira to let people enter it there. I could see this being
particularly useful for DHCP and could replace a bit of the current DHCP
registration stuff, and maybe useful for pirate hunting.
I would suggest that we do 1) since that solves the short term problem and
leaves the other open for the long term, however if Network was thinking about
something similiar to 2), we might as well just do it.
Comments?
We would like to deploy the new moira print stuff in the next 2 weeks, so a
lack of response would be interpretted as 'OK to go with 1)'
Matt
