MAC addresses, hostnames, and DHCP
Bill McGonigle
bill at bfccomputing.com
Fri Dec 2 12:11:02 EST 2005
On Dec 1, 2005, at 16:58, John Abreau wrote:
> Um, when you disconenct from the VPN, then reestablish it after
> switching from wired to wireless, the VPN session will still use the
> same IP address, so the ssh session will never see the IP address
> change. The change in the underlying "real" address will be invisible
> to the ssh session.
Right. ssh isn't NetworkManager-aware so it won't see any changes. I
suspect it will be some day, though. In that case it would know about
4 network changes. KISS wins the day here, though.
-Bill
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