Thanks Lennart! I actually don't need to do that, cause I found out that using Zeroconf and avahi to publish and browse for services, I don't need to change the IP of the machine. But thanks for the info.
Best regards, Carlos Castro 2010/4/25 Lennart Poettering <[email protected]>: > On Wed, 21.04.10 15:08, Carlos Castro ([email protected]) wrote: > >> Hi everyone! >> >> I want to remotely change a machine IP, so I can configure it exactly >> the way I want. So I'm using avahi to use Zeroconf and publish this >> machine on the network. Now that I can find it, I wonder if there is >> some kind of software ou command, so I can configure it's IP address >> from my workstation... I know I could use telnet ou ssh to connect to >> this machine and change from there, but I want to know if such >> software exists. > > Nope. Avahi cannot do that for you. > > Changing IP adresses remotely is problematic due to security concerns, so > this should probably done only via an authenticated protocol, and no > protocol Avahi implements is that. > > IIRC DHCP has a command for updating client configuration for active > leases. You might want to investigate that. > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. > lennart [at] poettering [dot] net > http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 > _______________________________________________ > avahi mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi > _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
