[HTCondor-devel] more on IP addresses

[Erik Paulson <epaulson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

HTCondor really should be doing something to manage IP addresses and treat them as a resource. Not every job will need a public-facing IP address, but some will, and HTCondor should think harder about them and possibly require that dependency be declared ahead of time.

Where you really should be is in a place where you can migrate any job, including network connections, to other hosts. Just here at the UW the rigmarole with scheduling and upgrades would be dramatically simpler if you could shuffle things around and you had a better sense of what the job was doing with its network. (It's nuts that you have to restart so many jobs when you upgrade HTCondor)

-Erik