At 02:02 PM 7/21/02 -0700, Paul M. Wright, Jr. wrote: > >>Some ISP's use private ip's on their DHCP and DNS servers, though > >>this is a bad way to save real ip's, it works for them. This is not > >>the case in your situation however, you would not have received > >>a DHCP lease if it was. > >Lynn - > >I'm curious as to your reasoning on this. Doesn't the DHCP lease >request occur before the firewall rules are started? > >My ISP is using an RFC1918 DHCP server and I get and maintain a lease >even with the default Shorewall settings.
The first DHCP lease request (and delivery) occurs before the firewall rules are started. Renewals have to get through the firewall, though, and that is the usual source of problems like the ones discussed in this thread. Without knowing more about your (and your ISP's) setup, I cannot say why it works while the other poster's does not. -- -----------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
