[lug] Newbie tries to make laptop modem work

[Ken Weinert]

* Glenn Murray (gmurray at mines.edu) [011207 16:50]:

> Well, I also had to take down my firewall, which leads to my next
> question.  How do you maintain an ipchains firewall with a ppp
> connection via a modem?  Isn't the IP address you use in the
> ipchains script usually assigned dynamically?  Do people actually
> write scripts to read the logs, find out what ip they've been
> assigned and sed that into their ipchains scripts?  I originally
> configured the laptop's network stuff for the ethernet card and a
> static ip address.

Well, I can't guarantee this is the most efficient way to do it, but
a) it works, and b) I didn't find an already established way to do it
:)

/sbin/ifconfig|fgrep -C eth0|fgrep "inet addr" | tr -s ' ' |cut -d: -f2|cut -d' ' -f1

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