So, I posted to the dhcp-server list to ask whether or not people would be interested in a utility suite. I got one response in about 30 seconds. That kinda surprised me. It was someone else doing a cable modem rollout. That seems encouraging. Perhaps I'll just go ahead and clean the code and documentation up and put it out...just to do it. It might make me feel like I'm accomplishing something.

In other news, Chris decided to send out his AgendaMaker script to the staff. It's something that probably should exist, given the structure of management here. As expected, there's a lot of kerfluffle. At first, I was irritated by it. As he explained it to me, I understood a need for it.

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So, time has passed. since the initial portion (above this) of this diary entry. I worked a couple of hours after work and got the dhcp utils cleaned up a bit. The documentation is still not perfect, but it is functional. I also thought of other things I'd like to add to the util suite. For instance, the 'ipchange' util that lets you add other configs needs a way to see the results of what you've changed beyond doing a grep some-macaddr -A 2 -B 2 /etc/dhcpd.conf.

The URL for the dhcpreg stuff is http://www.systhug.com/dhcpreg/.

This is actually the first software I've ever put out for public consumption on my own. I've shared stuff with other people, like scripts and the like in newsgroups, but this is my first run at trying to make a supported-type free software package. It's nothing fancy, but I learned some stuff doing it and that's a big part of this, right ? I hope people like it. I actually got about 7 or 8 responses this morning after I asked about it on the dhcp-server list. It's kinda nice to know that people out there are interested.