Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?
On 28 Jul 2001 19:01:07 +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote:
> On 28 Jul 2001, John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote:
>
> >Randy writes:
> >> The user will be able, from a user account, do a pon, poff, etc. to
> >> connect to the ISP. So, my challenge is to have the scripts run from
> >> user level security and install the firewall rules.
> >
> >> How do I do this?
> >
> >The scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d and /etc/ppp/ip-down.d are run when ppp
> >comes up and goes down respectively. They are run by pppd and so run as
> >root no matter who ran pon and poff.
>
> Alternatively, he could use the interface as a filter target instead
> of the IP address. Should be fine on stand-alone machine with a single
> external interface.
Oh! I did not know I could do that. Are you saying that I could have the
ipchain rules read.
$IPCHAINS -A tcpOutB -p tcp -s $NETWORK_PRIVATE $PORTS_UNPRIV \
-d ppp0 $PORTS_WWW -j ACCEPT
???
Regards,
Randy
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