Smoothwall, was Re: [Wolves] Dual-green Smoothwall

Jon Farmer wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
Fri Aug 29 10:01:03 2003


> I'm just downloading the ISO so I can play about before the Telewest dude
> comes along, I assume the NIC on the RED interface would just be a case of
> the installation picking it up and then me setting DHCP so that it could
> grab an IP through the RED from Telewest. I'm assuming that the IP will be
> static and likely to change once in a blue moon and that DHCP on the RED
> wouldn't be used that often?

If its Blueyonder broadband then it is dynamic IP. In practice you will only
change IP's if you reboot. That said I still get my dynamic DNS script to
run hourly.

Regards

Jon