Subj : The new way to showoff in Fidonet ;)
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Kees van Eeten
Date : Tue Jun 06 2017 22:30:00

Hello Michiel!

06 Jun 17 21:58, you wrote to me:

 KE>>  Why not, as long as you ajust the prefix, all should be well.

 MvdV> To adjust the prefix, one has to know what the new prefix is... If I
 MvdV> maually configure a static address in WIn XP, all the other public IPv6
 MvdV> adresses disappear. When the prefix chages, that system will not be able
 MvdV> to communcate with the outside world via IPv6. To get to know the new
 MvdV> prefix, the system running the script will have to interrogate the
 MvdV> router. The router does not have a proper interface for that.

 Time to change to an OS where networking was not added as an aftertought.

 KE>> It only requires smarter scripts to set the static address and update
 KE>> the DDNS. You can make a habit of separating prefix and local part. In
 KE>> that case you can ignore the prefix in your config files.

 MvdV> Hmmm.. I haven't even figured out how to automatically update the DNS
 MvdV> without the complication of not having the new prefix available at the
 MvdV> system running the script. I think I will cross that bridge first...

 Cannot you autoconfigure first and then add the static address?
 Oh, no, you lose all the others. ;(

Kees

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