Paul Sheer wrote:
> What is meant by `This may disrupt existing connections'? If a TCP
> connection assumes an IP, changing the interface will most certainly break
> the connection????
It will indeed. For example, if you have a telnet that's been pretty
much inactive, so the link goes down, then when it comes back up the
session is lost.
> Is there any way around this so that I can effectively use dynamic IP with
> demand dialing?
Yes - just don't expect to be able to continue any individual session
(such as a telnet or ftp) after the link has gone down and back up. You
just have to start a new session, that's all.
> What code would need to be written to get this to work? I would like to
> write support for this - what is needed?
It works as well as it possibly can as it is. I've used it, and it's a
bit annoying if you accidentally let the link drop, but all you have to
do is start a new session...
There's absolutlely nothing you can do - you have a different IP
address, so there's no way that the machine at the other end of those
connections can suddenly swap over
and talk to the new one.
If you have access to a machine which is permanently connected, yoy
could set up IP tunneling to it, but that's a different story.
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Nick Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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