Re: [LI] WAN

[Shanker Balan <shanu@xxxxxxxx>]

Jiju Thomas Mathew wrote:



> The ip-up script on server machine should be added one more instruction, to
> publish the ip to a prefixed web site, with a online presence notification.
> The client machine should be constantly polling this site to check for the
> existance of the presence notification.  Once the presence notification is
> available, the client can check for the server ip and start a connection
> proceedure.  This is not fully fool proof, ie a network error to the server
> from the ISP can create problems, ie the presence notification and the ip
> address will still be on the net and the server will be disconnected.  This
> is question to be worked around.

Hi,
	How about this one... run ICQ on both the networks and check the user
info for the IP address.

HtH,
--Shanu
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