Help setup home network when gateways, ip asigned by DHCP

[Mike Maltese]

You may want to try IP Filter instead. In my opinion, it's rule syntax makes
it much easier to work with DHCP.

http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/ipf-howto.html#TOC_29

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rod Person" <rod.person at hotpop.com>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 6:17 PM
Subject: Help setup home network when gateways, ip asigned by DHCP


> I have been trying to setup a home network for some weeks now. Here is
> the setup
>
>  -----------     --------------      ----------------        -------
> |Cable Modem|---|Gateway/Server|----|Cisco Poweredhub|------|FreeBSD|
>  -----------     --------------      ----------------  |    |Laptop |
>                                                        |     -------
>                                                        |____|win XP |
>                                                        |     ------- 
>                                                        |
>                                                        |---- 2 other
>                                                              win ws
>
> My problem is that my gateway get its external ip address via DHCP.
> I can't figure out how to setup ipfw rules to use DHCP addresses.
>
> Here are the portions of rc.ipfw:
>
> oif="fxp0"
> onet=? this is assigned via DHCP
> omask="255.255.255.240" <- Should I change this?
> oip=????
>
> #inside interface
> iif=fxp1
> inet="192.168.0.1/24"
> mask="255.255.255.0"
> iip="192.168.0.1"
>
> If someone can point me in there right direction I be really grateful.
> I can't find and discussion on this anywhere.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Rod
>
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