[lug] How to simulate static IP with openwrt/wrt54G with ez-ipupdate?

[John Hernandez]

Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> Please forgive me if you see this twice: I'm debugging an email problem.
> 
> I?ve been reading http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=68256#p68256 and wishing eleon would respond.
> 
> I saw ez-ipdate in ?ipkg list ? so I installed it on my wrt54G.
> 
> Does anyone know how to configure ez-ipupdate with one of the services listed at http://ez-ipupdate.com/?
> 
> I talked to dyndns.org and they said to abandon openwrt in favor of DDWRT so I could use inadyn. I?m reluctant to muck with something that is not broken ? my openwrt/whiterussian has been running just fine on my WRT54G for quite sometime.
> 

Siegfried,

root at OpenWrt:~# crontab -l
12 * * * * /usr/sbin/ez-ipupdate -c /etc/ez-ipupdate.conf -i ppp0

root at OpenWrt:~# cat /etc/ez-ipupdate.conf
service-type=dyndns
user=username:password
host=myhost.dyndns.org
quiet
cache-file=/etc/ez-ipupdate.cache
pid-file=/var/run/ez-ipupdate.pid

-John