New pf install on Freebsd7 seem to be a slow starter.

Leslie Jensen leslie at eskk.nu
Thu Jul 10 12:15:23 UTC 2008


Dennis skrev:

> LJ> Oh, I didn't know that! Can you tell me how to handle this?
> 
> LJ> The problem is these hosts are not fixed IP's so they use no-ip
> LJ> (http://www.no-ip.com/) to provide a fixed address.
> 
> It's possible to populate the table after network initialized and all
> other cervices are up. Just place empty table
> 
> table <goodguys> persist
> 
> in your pf.conf and
> 
> pfctl -t goodguys -T add \
>  something.somewhere.com \
>  somethingelse.somewhere.com \
>   xxx.yyy.zzz.qqq &
> 
> into your /etc/rc.local, so pf will start up without delays.
> 
> Regards,
>   Dennis
> 


Thanks Dennis.

I forgot to mention that I'm on a FreeBSD 7 system so the rc.local thing 
must go somewhere else, do you know where?

/Leslie



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