Messages in this thread | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] dynamic IP support for 2.4.0 (SIOCKILLADDR) | Date | Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:45:02 -0500 (EST) |
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John Fremlin writes:
> When the IP address of an interface changes, TCP connections with the > old source address are useless. Applications are not notified of this > and time out ordinarily, just as if nothing had happened. This is > behaviour isn't very helpful when you have a dynamic IP and know > you're probably not going to get the old one back. In that case, you ... > I patched userspace ppp-2.4.0 to use this functionality. It would be > better if SIOCKILLADDR were not used until we are sure that the new IP > is in fact different from the old one, but pppd in demand mode would
I get the same IP about 2/3 of the time, so it is pretty important to avoid killing connections until after the new IP is known. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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