[PLUG] How to detect ppp address change remotely?

Bill Barry bill at billbarry.org
Sun Mar 18 05:37:56 UTC 2012


On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Tom Sharples <tsharples at qorvus.com> wrote:
> Nice idea but it seems that Verizon blocks the necessary icmp traffic
> for that to work. Looks like I may have to either use an external server
> such as Russell suggests, or write some scripts to grep the IP address
> out of ifconfig and send a message with that info over to the downstream
> routers. They have password-protected embedded web servers (can't
> control the passwords) but I can probably figure out how to stick the IP
> info into one of the server error pages. Not the end of the world.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom S.
>

I don't know where to configure this permanently, but you should be
able to turn off NOARP with
ifconfig ppp0 arp

Bill



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