On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, William Kenworthy wrote:
get the device to tell you that its IP has changed?
I use a linux box behind an old DSL300 for the above that extracts the
IP number from the interface connected to the DSL300 every 60 seconds.
If its changed, this triggers an update to dyndns (via ezupdate),
restarts the webserver, firewall, asterisk etc with the new IP and
uploads a simple html file to my webspace on my ISP as a fallback.
dyndns has proven very reliable for changing IP's - basicly "just works"
- for ~4 years!
I presume OpenWRT can run scripts to do something similar?
I think it can run user-made scripts (that's the point, after all), but
my experience with OpenWRT is nil. I can cook up the script easily
enough, but I don't know about ezupdate in OpenWRT. Anyway, I don't
really need dyndns, just knowing the IP would be enough for my modest
needs.
What seems great about OpenWRT is the possibility of installing
packages. Only debian packages made for OpenWRT. I guess I'll have to
learn about that...
Cheers.
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Jorge Almeida
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