I never gave a thought to a slow DHCP server :-( , anyways, maybe a nice
place to use "wait" if in fact there was a problem, from memory I have only
seen reference to rc.local, but I don't have to worry about ppp or DHCP
where chains are.
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On 27/01/00 at 8:23 Charles Galpin wrote:
>You can setup ipchains *before* the interface is up if you have a fixed
>IP. I believe this would indeed be preferred. However if you have a
>dynamic external IP, and your script figures that out before setting it's
>rules, then you obviously need to run it after the interface is up, but as
>soon as possible. How much time elapses between the ifup-local and
>rc.local or rc.d/firewall are run I am not sure.
>
>I would love to know because I'm currently doing this as a firewall
>service in /etc/rc.d/init.d/firewall
>
>I think the ifup-local is safe. I just don't like having scripts in /sbin.
>
>charles
>
>On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:
>
>> I don't know much about aliases and such but I did want to make sure I
>> ran my rc.ipchains script at the appropriate time. Some diggging through
>> the startup scripts yeilded the fact that /sbin/ifup-local, if it
>> exists, is called each time an interface is brought up so I wrote a
>> script that tests for the interface name and if it is the outgoing
>> interface I call the script. here it is:
>>
>> #/sbin/ifup-local
>> if [ "$1" = "eth1" ] ; then
>> exec /etc/rc.d/rc.ipchains
>> fi
>>
>> At least I think it does wha I want if some of you gurus see something
>> dumb, let me know but it definetly brings up the interface.
>>
>> You should be able to test for eth0 instead and run the alias scripts in
>> the if block.
>>
>> Bret
>
Regards
Greg Wright
IT Consultant Sydney Australia
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