question about dhcp client
Charles Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Tue May 24 08:21:36 PDT 2005
On May 24, 2005, at 11:08 AM, perikillo wrote:
> Hi all, iam going to setup one firewall for a friend, i need to
> use the
> dhcp client to get the IP, my question is:
>
> 1; I need to have the BPF device enable, is a rule?
You need BPF if you want dhclient to work, yes.
> Because normally, by security is recomend that this option need to be
> disable!!!
Agreed. Using dynamic network configuration on a firewall is not
very secure. Get a broadband router to do DHCP and NAT, and place
your firewall between that device and your network configured using
static info...
--
-Chuck
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