From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 13 7: 8:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF40014D94 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 07:08:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA77018; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:08:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:08:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Setting up a firewall with dynamic IPs In-Reply-To: <199907130856.QAA12434@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > I was checking out the firewall setup in /etc/rc.firewall, and noticed that > the simple example relied on a fixed IP address for the external interface. I > don't know ahead of time what IP address is going to be allocated to me before > I dial up. Would it be possible to specify an interface (tun0) rather than an > IP address? Yes. That's what the "via" keyword is for. > > > Stephen > -- > The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. > > "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce > the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know > this is not true." Robert Wilensky, University of California > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message