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Date:      Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:08:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Setting up a firewall with dynamic IPs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907131008190.76301-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
In-Reply-To: <199907130856.QAA12434@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>

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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
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