Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:36:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, nakal@web.de Subject: Re: ppp with dynamic IPs and ipfw "me" Message-ID: <200406170936.i5H9apBr057774@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <1087404082.795.28.camel@klotz.local>
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Martin <nakal@web.de> wrote:
> Sometimes, I get disconnected with my DSL router and ppp
> reconnects me in background. This is correct so far, but
> I also get a new (dynamic) IP and it seems that ipfw
> does not forget my old IP.
>
> I noticed this behavior with the rules which restrict
> the communication to the ntpd-port 123.
I'm not sure if this is related to your problem, but you
have to kill and restart ntpd every time you get a new IP.
That's because ntpd binds to every IP address it finds upon
startup explicitely, not just to "*".
You can do that automatically with a ppp.linkup script.
Regards
Oliver
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