Re: [Grub-general] ip address

[Lowell H. <lha...@vi...>]

Won't that limit the client base possibilities though?  If I were a
dialup, dsl, or @home user (all of which are DHCP assigned addresses and
you're almost guaranteed not to get the same ip back again) and had to
log onto a webpage and enter my ip address for this session, few people
would want to run the client that didn't have a static ip (effectively
eliminating most of your home userbase).  Some cable/dsl providors even
time out your ip address after 24 hours so you're constantly being
reassigned... Maybe if ranges were allowed (12.34.45.*) or domain names
(*.adsl.isp.com) it would be bearable.  

Perhaps a key or password system would be better.  Log onto the website
and enter a password, which goes into to the grub.conf.  Or a key system
where each unique client instance must have a server-assigned key put in
the conf file, and tracking is done server-side blocking the client if a
key-id connects from more than 2 ip addresses in a 6-hour period... and
that key is used to encrypt the session.  

Lowell