Console-conf and ip address

[Shuduo Sang]

I use to use "nmap -sn 192.168.0.1/24" to find the IP address of my Pi box
since it always change with my router after reflash new image. It works
good in small set of devices like my home. :)

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:54 PM, Victor Palau <victor.palau at canonical.com>
wrote:

> Right, here in the office environment I can tell you that at least there
> are 3 ubuntu-core devices :)  Nice to know that there is one more work
> around to try.
>
> But we need a more robust solution IMHO
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Loïc Minier <loic.minier at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I agree this isn't great; I wanted to mention an old but still working
>> workaround: mDNS. Snapweb should publish a snapweb.local mDNS record on
>> your LAN, so ssh you at snapweb.local should work. Note that this only
>> works for one device at a time, so you want to change the hostname to have
>> e.g. rpi3-xyz.local.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Victor Palau <
>> victor.palau at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have an issue, and talking to a few people they had it too, where I
>>> set up my user link to my sso via console -conf and failed to write down
>>> the ip address of the box.
>>>
>>> Even having a keyboard and screen connected to the device (RPI2) does
>>> not help to get access to the box, since I never had a chance to set up a
>>> password. So I had to reflash the device and try again.
>>>
>>> My concern is that if I take the device somewhere else or I loose the
>>> lease for that ip and did not set up a password, my only option would be to
>>> reflash the device (if I dont have admin access in the network router i am
>>> connected). This seems a bad user experience.
>>>
>>> Could we not at least have the ip address for the device always
>>> displayed on the console login prompt.
>>>
>>> However, it still feels very fragile user experience
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Victor
>>>
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>>
>>
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>> - Loïc
>>
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