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Subject: Re: Switching wired <-> wireless in a user-friendly manner,
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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, to 
prevent myself from screwing anything up ;)