On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:20:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson did this all over the keyboard: > > However, with a dhcp-assigned fully-routable IP address, how > can you create rules on it without 1st knowing the address? > So, mustn't you make it S38firewall? > > Of course, if you have a dhcp-assigned address that never > changes, I guess you could fudge things.
why do you care about your ip address?
iface=<your device>
ifconfig ${iface} | grep 'inet' | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d " " -f1
or, if you have ipv6 support grep -v the inet6 stuff. the rest should be
the same.
cheers, Willi
P.S.: Glad to be back on this list after a break of 5 months :).
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