hi monks...

i have dhcp server which gives ip to few systems..using mac address how wil i find the ip address of that system from dhcpd.leases file via perl...

#dhcp.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
#use strict;
use Net::SSH::Perl;

$hostname = "dhcp-server";
$username = "admin";
$password = "pswd";

$ssh =  Net::SSH::Perl-> new ("$hostname", debug => 0);
$ssh -> login ("$username","$password");
#$ssh -> cmd ("cd /var/lib/dhcp/");
@ar = $ssh -> cmd ("cd /var/lib/dhcp/ && cat dhcpd.leases |grep $ARGV[
+0]");
print "@ar";

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when i run this script as

 perl dhcp.pl 12:34:56:78:90:32

i'm not getting the ip...is their any module which prints ip address assigned to particular mac address..please help me thank you

In reply to grep ip address from dhcpd.leases file using mac address by varalaxmibbnl

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