Ruby and DHCP (Net::DHCP maybe)

[Aldric Giacomoni]

I'd like to query a DHCP server to get information on the reservation. I
found Net:HCP at http://rubyforge.org/projects/netdhcp/
but .. There are now downloadable files there, and I feel a little
uneasy about downloading something from SVN as this may go into a
production script. Is there any other way to query DHCP? In case it
helps, it is a Windows server.

Thanks,

--Aldric

 

[Eustáquio Rangel]

I'd like to query a DHCP server to get information on the reservation. I

found Net:HCP at http://rubyforge.org/projects/netdhcp/
but .. There are now downloadable files there, and I feel a little uneasy
about downloading something from SVN as this may go into a production
script. Is there any other way to query DHCP? In case it helps, it is a
Windows server.

Seems that there are just some needed files on the trunk/lib directory
there. You'll need the Pcap extension (here:
http://www.goto.info.waseda.ac.jp/~fukusima/ruby/pcap-e.html and some
examples here: http://arstechnica.com/articles/columns/linux/linux-20051002.ars)
to run the main.rb file there. It just requires the dhcp.rb file and
seems to work.