hi hanno, > > So, unless you are setting up your applications to 'serve' from a > > specific ip address (which I'm assuming you're not) I don't see why > > you can't just do the same thing with your network interface as I do > > with my ppp interface. > > I am running a few servers (apache and exim were mentioned already, also > ftp and sshd), as I use my laptop as a development machine for web > sites. I somehow have to tell these servers that something has changed.
nope, you don't. at least not things like sshd, ftpd and X. not sure about apache - afaik apache can bind to a certain ip address (i don't use apache) to be able to decide which one was used on a multihomed host. but all the others are definitely fine, i change the ip addresses of my machines all the time and it works without any problems. i guess you tried it and something didn't work as expected - could you describe what's happening? christoph -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christoph Hebeisen Graduate Student Department of Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Phone +1 604 291-5924 Canada Fax +1 604 291-3592 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Also, I often use remote access to X on my laptop when I have a desktop > Linux box standing around. > > Possibly, I simply haven't understood the issue. E.g., do I have to tell X > that the IP address has changed in order to be able to connect to it from > a desktop machine? Or will it find out all by itself?
