question about dhcp client
perikillo
perikillo at gmail.com
Tue May 24 23:34:55 PDT 2005
Mmmm ok i go it, but i dont think that my friend wants to buy more
equipment, well i will trust on freebsd like always.
Thanks Charles for your information.
Great day all.
On 5/24/05, Charles Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
>
> 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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