[HECnet] Static IPs for everyone!

[Sampsa Laine]

> On 7 Nov 2016, at 13:18, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> 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.

I’ll run one - my box is on a 100/100 Mbps dedicated colo server in the UK, one hope from update so performance isn’t TERRIBLE.

Of course I won’t do it for people whose IPs keep changing on an hourly basis because 10 of those and my bridge becomes a yo-yo.

However most IP addresses change roughly daily max..

Sampsa




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