Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:54:57 +0100 From: dom@happygiraffe.net (Dominic Mitchell) To: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gerrit_K=FChn?= <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Searching for something like schemes Message-ID: <20020725175457.A46854@cathbad.happygiraffe.net> In-Reply-To: <3D3F6D6F.4010408@isi.edu>; from larse@ISI.EDU on Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 12:15:59PM %2B0900 References: <20020725121153.J15605@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <3D3F6D6F.4010408@isi.edu>
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 12:15:59PM +0900, Lars Eggert wrote: > Gerrit Khn wrote: > > I've FreeBSD running quite nicely on some Compaq Armada notebooks here, > > but I'm still looking for something similar to schemes under Linux. You > > know, something that lets you choose which network environment > > (IP-address to set, services to start, nfs-volumes to mount etc.) your > > machine is actually attached to. > > Is there anything like this out there that I couldn't find so far, or > > how is one supposed to solve this problem (i.e. do I have to write my > > own scripts for configuring different network environments)? > > We use a custom perl script during startup that auto-probes the network > for known locations. I could probably post it somewhere, but I doubt it > would make it into the tree at this time due to its dependence on a few > ports (and perl). NetBSD has a similiar utility, I think, although it's not auto probing, it's just "choose one of these configurations" on boot up. Unfortunately, my only NetBSD box is a powered off sparc/2, so I can't verify that for you right now... -Dom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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