On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Tim Nelson<[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all- > > I have a situation where I need to have firewall rules for a particular host > that has a dynamic IP address(PPPoE ADSL). Unfortunately, getting a static IP > is cost prohibitive at this point. When there is a power outage or after x > number of days, the IP address changes on the connection. My thought was to > write a script that would automagically check for the public IP, and if it is > changed, then update the firewall rule using curl to submit the form and then > reload the rules. Is there a better way to do this or any unforseen caveats > to doing it the way I described? > > Tim Nelson > Systems/Network Support > Rockbochs Inc. > (218)727-4332 x105 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Unless I am not understanding this, if you were to just put WAN Address as the rule destination instead of specifying the actual IP, it would fix the issue. Right? Curtis LaMasters http://www.curtis-lamasters.com http://www.builtnetworks.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
