(Yet Another) Home Networking Question

[Lowell Gilbert]

Rishi Chopra <rchopra at cal.berkeley.edu> writes:

> A question about the 'me' keyword and ipfw: The man page for ipfw
> states the following:
> 
>           me      matches any IP address configured on an interface in the
>                      system.  The address list is evaluated at the time the
>                      packet is analysed.
> 
> If I set my oif to 'rl0' (a nic in my system) and I set the oip to
> 'me', what should the onet address be set to?  Can I set the onet
> address to 'me' also?  The oif has its address assigned by DHCP.

No, that won't work.  Normally, you won't need the network value
unless you're serving as a gateway yourself.