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Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 11:57:52 -0600
To: Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com>
From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Subject: Re: [Q] ipfw and 'me'
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At 05:53 PM 1.6.2003 +0000, Jonathan Belson wrote:
>Jack L. Stone wrote:
>> The best way to do this is to use "awk" to determine and set a variable for
>> the external IP every time it changes and then refer to that variable in
>> your rules.
>
>ifconfig | grep ^xl0 -1 | tail -n 1 | awk '{ print $2  }'
>
>Any neater way? :-)
>
>
>--Jon
>

On the nose, Jon....!

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator

SageOne Net
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jackstone@sage-one.net

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