On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 10:16:32PM +0930, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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? > > You could probably do it from /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup, which knows your IP address > as MYADDR. But if you just have asingle machine on the end of the dialup then > I find I can get away with just specifying the netmask from which the dialup > IPs are assigned in place of a single address - all that can happen is that > packets get through your firewall destined to a nonexistent address (i.e. if > you allow incoming port Y traffic then people can send to port Y on > nonexistent IP addresses (i.e. your peer addresses) which will be dropped by > the kernel).
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