Re: [44net] Traffic not routing to my gateway - 44net

20 May 2017

...
  BTW, the encap file does not change much.  On average,
one line in it
 will change per hour, as a gateway with a dynamic address updates its
 address (and it's often the same gateway flipping between two or three
 addresses), but gateways come and go at a much lower rate -- I'd guess
 one or two a week.  So you'd be pretty safe just FTPing and processing
 a new encap file perhaps once a day if it winds up being a chore. 
The automation in the classic FTP client is a bit difficult to use, especially
when you want to use it for different sites, but the "wget" and "curl"
programs
can easily fetch a fixed file from a fixed server with a fixed user/password
by combining them all into a URL: ftp://user:pass@server.domain/path/to/file

Of course when you fetch and process the file once a day, you will not
be able to use those gateways that change IP address once a day due
to local provider policy.  But probably you'll never notice that... :-)

Rob