Re: firewall_type client too strong to surf the web :-(

From: Dave Goode (djg39_at_cam.ac.nospamformethanks.uk)
Date: 04/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:42:19 +0100

fred wrote:

> I put the ISP's gateway adress but it did not work anymore :-(

No, that won't work.

> I would like to verify this adress but I don't see it in ifconfig,
> do you know a command that show the IP address of my ISP's DHCP server ?

Temporarily disable the firewall and obtain an address by DHCP. Then:

 cat /var/db/dhclient.leases | grep dhcp-server

The resulting IP address is your ISP's DHCP server and is the one you want
to allow in your firewall rules.

Dave 

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