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Cc: james@icionline.ca, kjelderg@gmail.com, AT Matik <asstec@matik.com.br>,
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Subject: Re: Switching wired <-> wireless in a user-friendly manner,
	possible?
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On 11/27/05, Hans Nieser <h.nieser@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> AT Matik wrote:
>
> > may be you like what I do
> >
> > i have DHCP for my nic in rc.conf
> >
> > when my eth is up (sis0 in my case)  nothing happens as getting the
> config
> > from the dhcp server
> >
> > else I call a script to configure my wireless connection
> (/etc/start-wif)
> >
> > so you may check running this in crontab as I understand you unplug the
> cable
> > and run around ;)
>
> Thanks for the replies everyone. I think I am going to try and do
> something with devd.conf first. I'm going through the /etc/rc.d/netif,
> /etc/network.subr scripts at the moment so I can get a clear picture of
> how exactly FreeBSD (6.0 is what I'm using) sets up interfaces at boot, t=
o
> prevent myself from screwing anything up ;)
> _______________________________________________
>

I recently got wireless working on my laptop and am interested in a script
to readily/automatically switch between wired and wireless connections.  I
was wondering if anyone in this thread had made any progress on that.