Re: apache dies with pppoe

["Martin Gainty" <mgainty at hotmail dot com>]

Dave
get a NAT Server with DHCP Server for your Internal LAN (which handles
'Dynamic Addressing' from ISP) at the DSL interface..Linksys has one for
sure.
put in an entry into the NAT Table for incoming Port 80 calls to route to
the Puter with Apache running
(e.g. 192.168.1.100)
Hth,
Martin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill McCormick" <wpmccormick@covad.net>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 6:07 AM
Subject: RE: apache dies with pppoe


> > Carlo Florendo wrote:
> > >
> > > > I think this is a new one.
> > > >
> > > > I'm running Apache behind a nat'd f/w router attached to a
> > dsl modem that
> > > > dhcp's an ip from a pppoe connection.
> > > >
> > > > When the IP address changes, Apache must be restarted. At the
> > moment I'm
> > > > cron'ing a restart - but that's a kludge.
> > > >
> > > > Anybody have a similar setup with a better solution to keep
> > Apache going?
> > >
> > > What does this have to do with cygwin?
> >
> > agreed. This is a more generic problem on how to bind to interfaces
> > that do change it's IP nature.
> >
> > Stipe
>
> Right, sorry ... I was a little vague on where I was going with this. Let
me
> try again.
>
> Well, the way I see it based on what I I've read elsewhere, one solution
> would be to have CYGwin detect that the WAN IP has changed. I'm not sure
if
> that's possible or not. I use DynDNS.org to get a dynamic DNS, if that
> helps. I suppose I could write a little program, but I hate to re-invent
the
> wheel. So far, it seems not to be an Apache configuration issue, but I'm
> still looking into that too.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Bill
>
> Bill
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