Re: ipfw with DHCP [was: Re: ipfw by MAC]

From: Phil Staub (phils@ke7hc.net)
Date: 12/28/01


Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:33:30 -0800
From: Phil Staub <phils@ke7hc.net>
To: Krzysztof Zaraska <kzaraska@student.uci.agh.edu.pl>

Thanks, Krzysztof. I has assumed it would probably just be a matter of
knowing how to get around specifying the IP addresses in the
rules. This provides the examples I needed.

Phil

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:27:33PM +0100, Krzysztof Zaraska wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:49:28 -0800 Phil Staub wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 11:11:54PM -0800, Crist J . Clark wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:02:02PM -0800, John F Cuzzola wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi there,
> > > >
> > > > Does the latest version of FreeBSD allow you to create ipfw rules
> based
> > > > on MAC address instead of IP?
> > >
> > > No.
> >
> > This sort of prompts a question I've been wondering about since the
> > @Home->attbi.com transition: Has anyone addressed the issue of
> > configuring a firewall with a DHCP-assigned outside IP address?
> /.../
>
> Take a look at this:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/dialup-firewall/rules.html
>
> This setup could be a good staring point -- the author seems to be
> filtering mostly on interface basis so changing IP should not be a
> problem.
>
> Hope it helps
>
> Krzysztof

-- 
Phil Staub, KE7HC
phils@ke7hc.net
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