Simon Hobson wrote: > Johannes Graumann wrote: > > >> One of my interfaces depends on dhcp and the IP it fetches changes more >> often then I would like ... causing my half way complex shorewall setup to >> get hickups. I was wondering what other people use in these situation - I'm >> basically looking for a demon that watches the interfaces and upon IP >> change runs "shorewall restart" which includes params lines fetching the >> current IP addresses via python. I'm on debian and would prefer a solution >> > >from the repository ... is arpwatch an option? > > Debian uses the ISC DHCP client, and this runs a shell script to > manage the interface. The simplest thing to do is probably to modify > the script to automatically restart shorewall whenever it leases a > new address. > > I'm not really that familiar with the client (most of my work is with > the server), but if you get stuck then you'll find the DHCP Users > list quite friendly. I imagine it probably only requires adding a > "shorewall restart" to one or two places in the client script. > > DHCP Users can be found at : > List-help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-Id: <dhcp-users.isc.org> > List-subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-owner: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > why not add a "host" line in your dhcpd.conf and give it an ip that never changes, your interface can still rely on dhcp but it will have a static address. this is what I do on my networks
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