Re: Multihomed hosts and virtual web hosts

Joel S writes:

> I see two (small) challenges:  How do we specify the interface information
> with Ark's lists, tables, parameters, etc.?  ...
> 
>   <interfaces><table>
>     <entry name="hme0"><table>
>       <entry name="ip-address">192.168.1.1</entry>
>       <entry name="local-name">gold-hme0</entry>
>     </table></entry>
>     <entry name="qfe1"><table>
>       <entry name="ip-address">192.168.2.1</entry>
>       <entry name="local-name">gold-qfe1</entry>
>     </table></entry>
>   </table></interfaces>

I am basically cool with this, except I would like to add

       <entry name="mac-address">00:02:e3:1f:a7:0b</entry>

so I can generate DHCP entries, too.

Anybody else want to chip in before the hacking starts :-?
(Sound of sleeves rolling up...)

(Before going further: I should probably apologize for the
over-simple <ip-addresses> field.  I *knew* it wouldn't
"scale" to realistic situations, but I decided to wait 'til
those arose, rather than pre-guess what people would want to
do.)

> [out of order] How do we use the hostname.if0.tmpl
> template more than once?

I'll need to think about this a bit.  A hack would be to
have hostname.if1.tmpl, hostname.if2.tmpl, ... where they
just bottle out ("raise ark.error.TemplateSkipped") if the
machine doesn't actually have that many interfaces.

Will


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