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From: Anton V. Petrov (apetrov_at_nmts.smrtlc.ru)
Date: Wed Oct 02 2002 - 05:33:15 CDT

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    Chris,

    On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Chris Snow wrote:

    > I have OpenBSD 3.1 as a firewall connected via cable modem to the internet.
    >
    > What is the best way to automate updating my nat rules when this happens? I
    > was thinking of setting up a cron job to check if the external ip address
    > has changed, and if it has reload the nat rules.
    >
    > What is the best practise for updating nat rules?
    >

    I use mapping to interface name (ppp0), not ip address, so system doesn't
    have to know external ip.

    Regards,
    Anton V. Petrov

    http://www.smrtlc.ru/~apetrov