match client's shortname in huntgroups file

[Alan DeKok]

Jakob Hirsch wrote:
>
> is there an easy/good way to determine the huntgroup depending on the
> the shortname from clients.conf?

  They're independent, so the answer is "no, not really".

> We have more than 100 clients
> configured (with a "ProviderLocationCounter" pattern), so the
> information is duplicated in the huntgroups file (multiple times, as the
> huntgroup is also determined by Called-Station-Id). So it would really
> simplify things to have the shortname available for matching in the
> huntgroups file.

  Use rlm_passwd to map client IP to a provider location, and then put
the provider location in the huntgroups.

> unrelated side note: As I see, client_find() walks linearly through the
> client list. Shouldn't we keep this in a more appropriate data
> structure, like a btree or a trie,

  Yes.  The CVS head does this.

> and/or save the once found RADCLIENT*
> pointer in the REQUEST struct?

  Most of the information is saved in the REQUEST struct.

  Alan DeKok.
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