MAC addresses, hostnames, and DHCP

[Bill McGonigle]

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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