At 10:01 AM 8/11/00 -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: ... >This works fairly well, my own personal concern was: will the box get a >dynamic ip address through my DHCP client from my cable modem through the >firewall if the ip address changes? > >I haven't run into this problem yet, and I'm not familiar enough with the >DHCP protocol to say for sure. ...
Depends on the content of the firewall rules. Are you blocking or accepting the DHCP ports? The off-the-shelf, minimalist firewall produced by the ipmasq.*.deb package seems to handle this situation just fine ... that's the only one I've tested in a dynamic-addressing setting. -- ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------
