Kristian, Personally, I find this "IP-findme" is a non-issue, as I always assign my IP's by MAC address in m0n0wall... but we are not all geeks.
I will throw out an idea... If a person shoves a FAT-16 thumb-drive into the USB port a small text file (astlinux-status.txt) could be written to the thumb-drive containing the IP address and other status goodies. I am not sure what automount issues this might present. Maybe m0n0wall could do the same with USB hardware. Lonnie On Dec 18, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote: ... > > Then, people convinced me to make the default PBX only mode... > Which I > still think is a better default. However, clearly there needs to be a > way to discover the IP address. > > This has come up in the past. The simplest way would be to write a > multicast/broadcast daemon to transmit to the eth0 network on a given > port or something, like a heartbeat. One could then use a client > daemon > or packet sniffer to find out where the server is. > > The other potential is to use something like upnp/rendezvous or > similar. This is obviously MUCH more complicated, but it could > integrate well with other systems, like default Mac OS X installs. > _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
