On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 09:00 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 at 22:17:18 -0500, John Watlington wrote: > > We have a presence service which > > provides a way for P2P applications to find > > one another, even after the IP changes. > > Presence Service isn't magical. If a laptop's IP address changes, in the > link-local backend (Salut) this will most likely appear as a disconnect + > reconnect (and the user will leave all shared activities they were currently > in). This is somewhat unavoidable, but if it's a hard requirement that Salut > do its best to survive IP addresses changing, file a bug against > telepathy-salut. > > In the server-based backend, an IP address change *will* cause a > disconnect and reconnect. This is definitely unavoidable, since XMPP > uses a long-lived TCP connection to the server.
IP addresses are going to change; that's a fact of life. The best anyone can do is try to not make an IP address change a traumatic experience for the user, and provide mechanisms to ensure that whatever the user was working on at the time doesn't just disappear in a puff of smoke. Dan _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel