Re: pf "lost" its rules, due to PPPoE address change?

[Marsh Ray <marshray@bellsouth.net>]

On Thursday 06 February 2003 10:10 pm, Dirk Rösler wrote:
> Looking at my dyndns.org records I noticed that the IP address had
> changed recently. Of course ppp.linkup contains a pfctl reload command,
> yet the rules weren't in. Nothing's in the logs either (pflog not
> running BTW).

This has been happening to me, too.  You aren't on Bellsouth DSL by any 
chance?

I seem to get an address change shortly after connecting.  I end up with two 
aliases for tun0, only the second of which works for incoming connections.  
Removing the old (first) alias will trigger a dynamic DNS update, but 
otherwise my IP doesn't get updated.  I saw something in the PPP manpage that 
IPCP reassignments don't actually remove the old address.  As you noticed, 
they don't call ppp.linkup either.  I do see them in /var/log/daemon, 
however.

Could this be considered a bug in PPP?
Short of continuously scanning the logs, how can I find out about IP 
reassignments?

 - Marsh