Problem with ppp and pf on FreeBSD 5.3

[Kay Abendroth]

     Hello,

first of all: good choice choosing *BSD/UNIX.


Mauricio Brunstein wrote:

 > I am new to FreeBSD, and UNIX in general but form the beginning I'm
 > fascinated. I had configured a FreeBSD 5.3 machine to be the
 > Firewall/gateway of 8 windows PC's. The machine has 2 interfaces one
 > (fxp0) is connected to the ADSL modem and the another (rl0) is
 > connected to a switch where the windows boxes are connected too. The
 > first problem is that sometimes, when ppp redial to the pppoe Internet
 > provider,  I can use Internet from the FreeBSD machine, but not from
 > the internal network. I had  found a workaround to this problem, I added
 > these lines to ppp.linkup
 > --------------------------------
 > server:~ $ cat /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup
 > default:
 > ! pfctl -F all -f /etc/pf.conf
 > ! /usr/local/etc/ez-ipupdate.conf
 > ---------------------------------

[...]


The '! pfctl...'-line is ok, but the last one is bogus. Your intention 
was to start ez-ipupdate, but what you actually do is calling its 
configuration-file. You should change this to:

! /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ez-ipupdate.sh start


And in ppp.linkdown you should have a line:

! /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ez-ipupdate.sh stop


Bye,
Kay