[HECnet] What happens when the host uses a dynamically assigned IP address?

[Sampsa Laine]

On 25 Sep 2013, at 17:04, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello!
Still thinking about working on how to bring up a system that's
eligible for participation within our group. The only stumbling block
isn't the OS or the emulated system. In fact it happens to be the fact
that my Internet connection is managed via a DSL device who is
assigned an IP address via PPPoE services. Does any of our members
also have that problem? I actually asked the service provider what was
involved with ordering service for a static one several years earlier.

Problem then, was that the copper was too old in my part of the country.

I imagine that FIOS (Fiber-optic based service from the phone company)
is the reason why the copper isn't be upgraded.

And since my cable company can be all thumbs when performing service I
turned down their offers......

If you can run MULTINET then Steve Davidson can hook you up to SG1::.

GORVAX used to run MULTINET as well but I rebuilt it lately as a plain area router.

Another idea (not necessarily a good one, performance-wise) is to ask for a VPN connection to somebody on HECnet, make sure you get the same IP address every time you connect the VPN and route the bridge's UDP packets over that.

That's how HILANT:: et all are connected, the machine that runs the bridge is VPN'd into my other network, giving it a static (NAT) IP address.

sampsa