From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jul 14 11:22:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5505F37B400; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 11:22:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iguana.icir.org (iguana.icir.org [192.150.187.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C55D43E64; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 11:22:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rizzo@iguana.icir.org) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.icir.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g6EIMZc78235; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 11:22:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rizzo) Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 11:22:35 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo To: Alex Cc: cjc@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/36230: ipfw traffic shaper with DHCP env. Message-ID: <20020714112235.A78146@iguana.icir.org> References: <200207132149.g6DLnY0v057339@freefall.freebsd.org> <18432210796.20020714200703@dds.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <18432210796.20020714200703@dds.nl>; from akruijff@dds.nl on Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 08:07:03PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 08:07:03PM +0200, Alex wrote: ... maybe you should clarify your example then -- showing who are the client(s), firewall and DHCP server, where do you install the ipfw rules (client, firewall, dhcp server ?), and how often does the DHCP server force a change of address to the clients (which is kind of bad because existing connections will have a hard time during the switchover, and also dns lookups...) cheers luigi > CJC> > I like to run a ipfw traffic shaper on a network with a DHCP server. The DHCP server updates the DNS with a given hostname (+ suffix). The ip-address the client receives can change in time but the hostname do not. The ipfw rules however keep the old values resulting in a rules that do not apply. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message