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ddriver
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 Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 9:41 am Post subject: /etc/conf.d/net per ESSID configuration |
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I think I've found a flaw in the design of /etc/conf.d/net variables. I wondered if anyone had any ideas of how to fix this.
What I want is to configure it so that one wireless interface (the internal one) will connect with a certain config when on my home network, but use DHCP elsewhere. My problem is that my machines will sometimes have two or more wireless interfaces connected and I don't want them to pick up the same IP address as my main wireless interface, as that would result in duplicated IP addresses.
From the documentation:
| Quote: | 2.c. Variable names and values
Variable names are dynamic. They normally follow the structure of variable_${interface|mac|essid|apmac}. For example, the variable dhcpcd_eth0 holds the value for dhcpcd options for eth0 and dhcpcd_essid holds the value for dhcpcd options when any interface connects to the ESSID "essid". |
This notation is ambiguous, because it cannot cope with the unlikely but possible case where you have an interface with the same name as an ESSID. Worse though, I can only specify an interface OR an ESSID, there is no provision for specifying a combination, which is what I need to do in this case. I have tried it using the following combinations:
| Code: | config_intwlan_MyESSID=192.168.0.152
config_MyESSID_intwlan=192.168.0.152 |
and neither of them work.
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NeddySeagoon
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ddriver
Its not clear if you have followed the examples is /usr/share/doc/openrc-0.8.3-r1/net.example.bz2 or not
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