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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

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