Thanks to Mark and Mike to getting me looking in the right place. Here is what
I have done to get this working if anyone is interested
looking at /etc/ppp/ip-up I noticed that there is a call to ip-up.local if it
exists
sooo, not wanting to make any changes that would get overriden when I upgrade:
moved rc.firewall to /etc/ppp/ppp.firewall
created ip-up.local and call my ppp.firewall from there
eureka! it works.
I noticed that the call to ip-up.local passes all args to ip-up on to
ip-up.local so now I can get rid of the cludgy greping and cutting from the
output of ifconfig and use the arguments instead in my ppp.firewall script
anyone see any pitfalls with this scenario?
I will probably put a little smarts into ip-up.local and only call the firewall
if I am connecting to my ISP since I am working on getting a dialup into a
remote lan working.
btw the args to ip-up appear to be as follows
interface_name device speed inet_addr P-t-P_addr my_interface name
ex. ppp0 /dev/modem 115200 123.123.123.50 123.123.123.51 ppp1
I added the following line to ip-up to figure this out
echo "$*" > /var/run/ipup-args
Anyone know what the speed variable is? Is it merely what I requested the
connection to be made at or what was acually negotiated?
Thanks and I hope this helps someone.
Bret
Mark Cooke wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Bret Hughes wrote:
>
> > I would like to know if there is a standard place to place local
> > configuration scripts into the dialup process.
>
> Hi Bret,
>
> As you're running RedHat 5.0, you can look in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
>
> In 5.2, a script called ifup-post is called after an interface is
> brought up, and you could use this script to setup the firewall
> rules. ISTR this was there in 5.0 as well (though it's been a while
> since I had a 5.0 box)
>
> 5.2 also sends a SIGIO to all programs having a file in
> /var/run/netreport containing their pid. (See network-functions'
> do_netreport function)
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
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