On Friday 19 November 2004 07:53, Doug Finch wrote: > I have an idea that I wanted to throw out there. I have a cable ISP > plant that I am trying to help with a project. They are using Cisco > 7114 UBRs to connect their cable modems with their Internet backbone - > this device assigns it a dhcp address and associates it with the modems > MAC address. It does a lot more than that but that is all I am > concerned with. I want to see if I can write a script that will > constantly execute the command "show ip arp" which will return the > current routing table with the MAC and IP address (dhcp). I can foresee > two problems so far, one is that you have to have enable mode access to > run this function and two, I would fear creating a security loophole by > running an enabled function all of the time. Can I get your thoughts on > this?
wouldn't something like Perl Expect work wonders here?? you could combine it with a mysql db if the details are to be stored for later viewing. -Z > thanks, > Doug -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
