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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