Re: Accessing attributes with the same name

[Christopher A B. <ca...@tc...>]

As Jim Harle once put it so eloquently:

> But doing that won't help establish pairings if he has multiple sets of
> modem/client/IP/MAC.

My understanding of the problem was that for each user (object) in the 
directory, there was always exactly one modem IP/MAC pair and one
"client" IP/MAC pair.

If there were arbitrary numbers of either, then your solution is better.

> On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Christopher A Bongaarts wrote:
> 
> > As Jim Harle once put it so eloquently:
> >
> > > version of your current one.  If you don't care about pairing, then this isn't
> > > an issue at all.  If you are fanatic about pairing, then you will need to do
> > > something like define a new attribute.  This might be called something like
> > > ipMac and have values like 123.321.123.321|ab:cd:ef:01:23:45.  You would search
> > > for an IP with a filter like "ipMac = $ip|*" or for a MAC with "ipMac =
> > > *|$mac".
> >
> > Or simply define multiple attributes for the distinct purposes:
> >
> > modemIP
> > modemMAC
> > clientIP
> > clientMAC
> >
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