On 04/21/2016 12:19 PM, Light, John J wrote: > I can imagine a server could remember what port/IP it's been running on, and > if a restart results in a different port or IP, it would announce via > multicast its new port/IP, identifying itself with its guid. > > OTOH, that's a major change. Also, the announcement could be lost, so the > client would still need to be able to rediscover. > > John
I don't know what people are implementing, but one of the IPv6 schemes lets you build your address from the mac address, which means it does not change. I have a couple of systems where that's being done....
