Well, I now have much more "visible" stuff done. I've been
working on the GUI to the utility so that I can do more
testing. I now have it to the point of when I log in it "grabs"
my ip from the HTTP headers and then parses (properly) a
dhcpd.leases file to get the MAC address that has
been assigned that IP address. It currently just flat-out
attempts to insert this newly determined information into the
database (which fails if the record is already in there). I need
to work on the REG_DB module (namely the storeMachineInfo
subroutine) so that it checks the database to see if a record
exists and take proper action accordingly. In the occurance of
the need to add a record to the database (not update it) I also
need to get the sub to add the record to the
new_connections table. Basically, now that I have
the user-side GUI almost done, I can worry about solidifying the
structure of the back-end. More news to come shortly.