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From: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>
To: "James A. Coulter" <james.coulter@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: DHCP and the "SIMPLE" option in /etc/rc.firewall
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On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, James A. Coulter wrote:

> Without a static IP address for my outside interface, how do I set these
> options?

you could

1. use 'me' (without quotes) to represent the ip address in rc.firewall

OR

2. hack up an /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks which grabs the new ip address and
   reruns rc.firewall with this new address

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