Re: Has Anyone Used Cfengine With Dynamic IP Addresses?

[Chip Seraphine]

Using cfservd in the normal manner may be more difficult with dynamic 
addresses, but I don't see why cfagent would care (unless you told it to).

Just kick off your cfagent's via cron or ssh (or cfexecd?), and perhaps 
do your file copies over NFS or via rsync shellcommands or something. 
With a little creativity you can probably have a nicely-running cfengine 
setup that generally ignores the cfengine-specific auth stuff.  It won't 
be very boss, but it should basically work...

Obviously, this puts the onus of security on you, however :-)

Rasheda M Menzies wrote:
> In the book, _Automating Unix and Linux Administration_, it says that, 
> "It is difficult, if not impossible, to use cfengine with dynamic 
> IPaddresses".  Has anyone actually had success with Red Hat clients, ie 
> laptops, which go on/off network at any time and loses their IP 
> addresses?  If so, please let me know how this
> is done in cfengine.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Rasheda
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