Re: Searching for something like schemes

Gerrit Kühn wrote:
> I've FreeBSD running quite nicely on some Compaq Armada notebooks here,
> but I'm still looking for something similar to schemes under Linux. You
> know, something that lets you choose which network environment
> (IP-address to set, services to start, nfs-volumes to mount etc.) your
> machine is actually attached to.
> Is there anything like this out there that I couldn't find so far, or
> how is one supposed to solve this problem (i.e. do I have to write my
> own scripts for configuring different network environments)?

We use a custom perl script during startup that auto-probes the network 
for known locations. I could probably post it somewhere,  but I doubt it 
would make it into the tree at this time due to its dependence on a few 
ports (and perl).

Lars
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Lars Eggert <[email protected]>           USC Information Sciences Institute