diald and firewalling

[Sandro Poppi]

I'm using successfully diald and masquerading/firewalling. I found out that I have to set up input and output rules with "ipfwadm -W" for both sl0 and ppp0. I can't use external ip adresses because these are assigned dynamically and thus can't use the -V option.

I think this makes the connection slower than it should be. Does anyone too have such a configuration set up successfully? Maybe it could make sense to delete the rules for sl0 after ppp0 has been changed to snoop device via diald and reassign them after the link is brought down.

Here some further facts:
RedHat 5.2, kernel 2.0.36, diald 0.16.5a, modem connection via telephone line, internal IP 192.168.x.x

Thanks in advance!

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Sandro

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