also sprach Andrei D. Caraman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.09.1629 +0200]: > Urs has a 2.2kernel/ipchains masquerading firewall connecting > his home LAN to the world over a DSL line (with pppoe). Now his > provider disconnects every pppoe session that's longer than 24 > hours, most likely to discourage people from running their own > (web) servers and such. Of course, upon reestablishing the > link, the box gets a different IP address (that was the whole > point of disc'ing the line). The script Urs had did not take > into account a change of the local IP address.
I was thinking something like that. Tell me, though, why do you need the local IP in a firewall script? All my firewall scripts are independent of the local IP... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "die menschen dr�ngen sich zum lichte, nicht um besser zu sehen, sondern um besser zu gl�nzen." - friedrich nietzsche
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