udhcpd has a very nice and helpful feature to call an external script
once a lease is aquired. We however can't use udhcpd because it doesn't
allow binding IP addresses to specific HW addresses.
It would be extremely nice if dhcp3-server would call (e.g.)
/etc/dhcp3/dhcpd-script with interface and acquired IP when a lease is
assigned.

I will look into creating a patch for this.

cu,
sven

an old patch that enables this feature can be found here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=dhcp-server&m=102853980003156&w=2

I use the execute patch at home with some custom LDAP-editing shell scripts, and it works quite nicely.

It does however mean that I have to merge the patch into the source package every time there's an important update though, which given that I also
used the LDAP config patch ( now thankfully available pre-packaged as http://packages.debian.org/lenny/dhcp3-server-ldap ), made for a painful merge
that as such only got performed when a dependency issue raised it's head (case in point, I'm still running 3.0.4-12).

Well, another dependency issue has occurred (libldap/dhcp3-server-ldap/perl/cyrus-admin/etc) so a rebuild is on the cards and and I'd like to
resurrect this old bug, as whilst I now only have to merge the execute patch in, it does still leave me with non-standard packages littered about,
which is less than ideal, especially since this functionality is so incredibly useful.

- Jamie

Note that 3.1.0 has execute() support.

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