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Date:      Mon, 6 Jul 2020 12:59:50 +0200
From:      Julien Cigar <julien@perdition.city>
To:        Evilham <contact@evilham.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mpd5 link up
Message-ID:  <20200706105950.6qkk23ba2cgwv6w2@x1>
In-Reply-To: <37ac95e3-8167-4f59-adb0-c87905825e28@yggdrasil.evilham.com>
References:  <20200706093639.64kx6wehespfqgnt@x1> <ed4e4dda-30f9-4701-9029-cd82f6bbb20a@yggdrasil.evilham.com> <37ac95e3-8167-4f59-adb0-c87905825e28@yggdrasil.evilham.com>

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On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 12:28:13PM +0200, Evilham wrote:
> On dl., jul. 06 2020, Evilham wrote:
> 
> > On dl., jul. 06 2020, Julien Cigar wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I switched from base ppp to mpd5 for my "home" router/firewall
> > > (small
> > > APU2C4) as ppp consumes a lot of CPU usage (100% CPU in fact)
> > > and is
> > > unable to use multiple cores for a single PPPOE connection. It
> > > works
> > > well but as I have a dynamic IP and a DYNDNS-like hostname I
> > > don't see
> > > any option in mpd5 to execute a script whenever the IP address
> > > changes.
> > > There is set "iface up-script xxx.sh" but it is called only when
> > > the
> > > interface changes it's state to UP (first connection).
> > > 
> > > This is my configuration:
> > > https://gist.github.com/silenius/0a40de647b48829fd76c5dec098188e3
> > > 
> > > Any idea if I missed something in the documentation?
> > > Otherwise, is there a way to detect an address IP changes in
> > > devd?
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > > 
> > > Julien
> > 
> > Hi Julien,
> > 
> > I actually recently did precisely that as well (also on an APU
> > :-)).
> > 
> > This is documented with the port in:
> > /usr/local/share/doc/mpd5/mpd28.html
> > 
> > Cheers, and enjoy the *much* better performance :-)
> 
> 
> Crap, hit send too quickly, you already have that; sorry!
> 
> I don't recall seeing something like that and my ISP provides static
> addresses so didn't hit that issue.
> 
> My approach when I used to have these issues was to have a cron job that
> took care of that :-/.

yes.. I wanted to avoid using cron for that but if there is no other
way I'll use it.

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