[WBEL-users] ADSL via DHCP, IP adress and Firewall

[John Morris]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Jean LEE wrote:

> My problem is that my provider often changes my IP adress. Then, I have
> to reexecute manually my firewallscript to take this new ip adress into
> account. How can I do to make the execution of this firewall script
> automatic after each change in my IP adress ?

Have a look at the manpage for dhclient, especially the part about 
/sbin/dhclient-script, which has it's own manpage.  It should let you 
reconfigure the firewall the instant the ip changes.

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