Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:51:03 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.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: <199907132351.AAA78465@dev.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:56:13 %2B0800." <199907130856.QAA12434@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>
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> 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?
If you use ppps internal filtering with HISADDR (not the actual IP
number), ppp is now smart enough to modify the rules when it
negotiates a new address with the peer :-)
> 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
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