Re: ipmasq

[Gavin Burris <ga5in@mall21.com>]

Eskild Wikkeling wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I'm actually a bit of a newbie at debian firewalling so I hope I posted
> this to the right mailing list.
> My problem: I run a firewall/gateway system on a cable connection to the
> 
> net with a dynamic ip. So everytime my isp disconnects me I get a new ip
> 
> and ipmasq has to be run again. I have 00ipmasq in my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d
> folder (along with some other stuff) but it's not run when the machine
> reconnects (I have to manually enter the command), what did I do wrong?
> the 00ipmasq file contains the following lines:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> test -x /usr/sbin/ipmasq || exit 0
> 
> if [ -e /etc/ipmasq/ppp ]; then
>     /usr/sbin/ipmasq
> fi
> 
> thanx,
> Eskild
> 
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Try placing a shell script in the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d directory.  This will
be ran every time you ppp connection is restarted.
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