Network profiles

jessler · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 2:23 am Post subject: Network profiles

I hope I'm not re-hashing a topic already discussed here before, but I have a question. I use my laptop between the office and home. At home I use DHCP on my home network. At the office I use a static address and network configuration.

Now the question, is there a utility or set of scripts that will query you at boot up for a location profile? ie. You create a profile for your work and one for home and depending on your selection it will configure the network settings for you.

I guess I could do this through a PERL script or Shell script but I hate re-inventing the wheel.

Thanks

chadh · Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 8:15 pm Post subject:

Well, I really want to get this integrated into Gentoo's init scripts, but it is not there yet. In the meantime, emerge quickswitch, and take a look at /etc/quickswitch/switchto.conf . It will do everything you need (and more). You will probably also need to take a look at the README in /usr/share/doc/quickswitch-1.0_pre1/

Report back here if you have any questions or comments.
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BackSeat · Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 9:19 pm Post subject:

What's really needed is a hack to the net script to try for a dhcp address, and if that fails to gracefully fall back to a predefined IP address, and preferably to do the whole thing asynchronously.

BS

chadh · Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 9:31 pm Post subject:

actually, dhcp-client does this, or so I have heard. It will either fall back to the previous ip address or one of your choosing.
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