From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 11:26: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from istar.ca (d141-119-162.home.cgocable.net [24.141.119.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0F237B422 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 11:25:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) Received: (from genisis@localhost) by istar.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4FITmM11560; Tue, 15 May 2001 14:29:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from genisis) Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:29:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru To: Chip Wiegand Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISP is forcing a change from static to dynamic IP Addresses. :-( In-Reply-To: <20010514165520.1f0ee839.chip@wiegand.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Chip, If you're running a version of FreeBSD greater than version 4.2-Release, you can replace your static IP with the "me" keyword in your ipfw ruleset. Dru On Mon, 14 May 2001, Chip Wiegand wrote: > My ISP recently informed all their customers they have reorganized their > system, received new ipaddress ranges and are requiring everyone to go > to dynamic ip addresses. They say the dynaminc address given will be > staticly mapped, so in essence it will be 'perminant'. I have a machine > setup with fbsd4.2, it is my router/firewall, running IPFW/NATD. > I have had a static ip address for a couple years, now I have to change. > I'm not sure what I have to do to make the change. > Any suggestions would be appreciated. (Including changing ISP's). > > -- > Regards, > > Chip > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message