Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 18:20:58 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Per olof Ljungmark" <peo@intersonic.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: add route called from script Message-ID: <20040708182058.0419994a.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <40EDBCC7.8010007@intersonic.se> References: <40EDBCC7.8010007@intersonic.se>
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"Per olof Ljungmark" <peo@intersonic.se> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am experimenting with openvpn-2 and so far it looks promosing. As this
> version of openvpn can assign client addresses similar to dhcp, I need
> to find out how to assign a route from a script, like (this is the
> client end, running FreeBSD):
>
> [simplifed example]
> #!/bin/sh
> openvpn --daemon --config my-vpn.conf
> route add 192.168.0.0/16 <adress from tun{if} here>
I'm no guru for either of these commands, but I'm guessing this is a
canonical job for sed and/or awk. Something like:
IPADDR = `ifconfig | awk '<awk magic to extract the IP>'`
route add 192.168.0.0/16 $IPADDR
I hope this is helpful, sorry I don't have a more precise answer.
--
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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