[HECnet] Static IPs for everyone!

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Mon Nov 7 03:18:31 PST 2016


On 2016-11-07 12:05, Sampsa Laine wrote:
>
>> On 7 Nov 2016, at 13:03, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>
>> On 2016-11-07 12:02, Sampsa Laine wrote:
>>> Actually I just wrote like 10 lines of Python to check if the address has changed, if so, -HUP the bridge process.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Yeah, that's an obvious, easy way to make it sane.
>>
>> 	Johnny
>
> Thanks :)
>
> Doesn’t this pretty much solve the issue of bridges and dynamic IP addresses?
>
> :P

Depends. If you have a dynamic address, your bridge do not need to be 
updates. It is the other end that needs. And it might be that I 
could/should run such a monitoring system, but I have lots of entries in 
my config, and I guess I should think about/consider what might go wrong 
if I were to use this.

	Johnny

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