DHCP with ipfw

[Martin]

ON 5+, you also have to open up the MAC layer FW:

ipfw add allow mac via xl0

If the DHCP server is slow and did not reply back before the
dhclient did continue the boot process, you maybe you do have 
to reload the FW rules once your DHCP connection is established.

/Martin

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 05:07:30 +0000 (UTC), Sergei Gnezdov wrote:

>/etc/rc.conf:
>
>  ifconfig_rl0="DHCP"
>
>  firewall_type="client"
>  firewall_enable="YES"
>
>When my machine boots firewall is initialized before DHCP obtains IP
>address.  This results in incomplete firewall configuration.  How do I
>fix this?
>
>My /etc/rc.firewall initialized with the following commands:
>
>  net=`ifconfig rl0 | grep "inet " | awk '{print $6}'`
>  mask="255.255.255.0"
>  ip=`ifconfig rl0 | grep "inet " | awk '{print $2}'`
>
>
>
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