From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 29 10:24:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from schmoo.tclme.org (schmoo.tclme.org [208.24.53.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C61B37B43F for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 10:24:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgreene@tclme.org) Received: (qmail 90211 invoked by uid 1014); 29 Apr 2001 17:23:34 -0000 Received: from dinky.tclme.org (HELO tclme.org) (rgreene@208.24.53.107) by mail.tclme.org with SMTP; 29 Apr 2001 17:23:34 -0000 Message-ID: <3AEC5086.87A84F7C@tclme.org> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 12:33:58 -0500 From: Bob Greene Organization: tclme.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Richard E. Hawkins" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting up laptop for both static/dynamic ip'ss References: <200104291656.f3TGuqn72931@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Richard E. Hawkins" wrote: > > My laptop arrives on Tuesday (we think). It will need to use > a static IP when at my desk, and dynamic when dialing in. Is > there a way to make this automatic--perhaps so that if it finds > the network on boot, it uses the static, and if not, it waits for > ppp to be launched? > > thanks > > hawk Why don't you just down the ethernet interface in your ppp script? -- Bob Greene rgreene@TclMe.org Pull my finger for my public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message