On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:23:49PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 07:08:36PM +0200, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> > 
> > geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be said:
> > > add static ARP entries, listed in /etc/arp.conf
> > 
> > I'd prefer a slightly more expensive solution: Have only the IP addresses
> > in /etc/arp.conf and look up the IP-ether pairs in /etc/ethers. This
> > avoids duplication of information, and it would allow to have the
> > /etc/ethers database distributed network- wide, eg. per LDAP. (security
> > considerations aside, but there are means to authenticate)
> > Something like
> > while read ip; do
> > 	arp -s $ip `getent ethers $ip`
> > done
> > 
> > Just needs "getent" to handle "ethers".
> 
> I concur that this is a good idea.  But I'm not a C coder.  Can anyone hack
> /etc/ethers support into getent?  And could all this be checked in before
> 3.0 is released?  

I've just hacked up ga version of getent with ethers support added.
I'll see about getting it committed.  I think it should be possible
to get this in before 3.0 provided I do all the pullup requests...

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Brian