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SubjectRe: Dynamic IP hack (PR#294)
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> There's no solution here that doesn't violate protocol
> requirements. If someone presses the big red button and
> we reboot in under 120s we also violate the time wait
> requirements of the TCP protocol.

And the only person we might screw up is ourselves in that case.

> A dynamic-address PPP connection going down is not the
> way the Internet was supposed to work, but it's real life.

The internet handles it fine

> At the moment we continuously redial in a desperate attempt
> to get our old address back. Since most ISPs have pools

If you simply supress sending with source addresses you dont currently
posess then the kernel is behaving right. Diald can and should be left
to sort the rest out.

I still believe this hack doesnt belong in 2.1.x


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