JASON SNYDER wrote:
A year and some change ago I scrounged together a computer, put mdk on
it, and set it up as a masquerade firewall and DHCPd server for my cable
modem at home. I have a script that is run at boot (and is set up to be
rerun at any time) to set up all of my ipchain rules
So sprach JASON SNYDER am Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:29:46PM -0700:
This seems like a cluggy way to do things. Is there a more elegant way
to keep ipchains and dhcpd information up to date? I would especially
Hmm, you might have a look at one of the dhclient packages that are
available for the
Download and examine the pmfirewall scripts from http://www.pointman.org.
They do exactly what you need and you might be able to simply incorporate
those scripts into your current firewall scripts...or, vice versa.
--Greg
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Subject: [expert] Masq f/w and DHCPd on dynamic Internet address
A year and some change ago I scrounged together a computer, put mdk on
it, and set it up as a masquerade firewall and DHCPd server
for my cable
modem at home. I have a script that is run at boot (and
One thing that has been worrying me for awhile is the number of people
who use home brew ipchains scripts and who may not *really* understand
how it works! I hope you have tested it for holes etc! Go the
pmfirewall or other well known script way and be sure of what you are
doing when you
