Re: Automatic network config.

Yann Golanski wrote:
> I have a laptop which I plug into two different networks (home and at
> university) which means it has to have two network configurations. Is
> there a simple boot up time option that would allow the laptop to find
> the right configuration to boot up with? 
> 
> I can think of hacking the networks start script to include something
> like:
>   if (network at uni works) then boot that one
>   else if (network at home works) then boot the home one
>   else do not boot any network.
> But I think that there maybe something already there to do it.

Look at the location.sh script at http://www.isi.edu/larse/etc.html. 
It's for current, but easily pluggable into -stable. (I'm thinking about 
backporting it for our 4.7 machines.)

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