Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 16:11:19 -0800 From: Sean Ellis <sellis@telus.net> To: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw script values Message-ID: <118183358158.20011104161119@telus.net> In-Reply-To: <20011104185024.E95918-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> References: <20011104185024.E95918-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com>
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Hey Dru, Sunday, November 04, 2001, 3:53:02 PM, you wrote: > On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Sean Ellis wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I edited a general-purpose firewall rule script and use it on >> a dual homed machine. It provides nat and filtering. My question >> is, right now I have the value for the external interface ip number >> 'hard-wired' into the script. No problem, but the machine picks up >> this number via dhcp, so I'd like to have something a little more >> dynamic here. Does anyone have a suggestion for a nice neat way to >> grab this and the network, and mask values. Are they available anywhere >> in a convenient user-friendly form? > Hi Sean, > If you're using FreeBSD 4.3 or above, you can use the "me" keyword. > However, there is a security advisory (SA-01:53) which may affect you if your > system is older than August 17th. I'm ok on both counts (version, date), I'll be looking that up then, muchas gracias, > Dru -- Best regards, Sean mailto:sellis@telus.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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