From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Jul 26 2: 9:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 137DF37B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 02:09:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cathbad.happygiraffe.net (choke.semantico.com [212.74.15.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C884743E3B for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 02:09:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dom@happygiraffe.net) Received: by cathbad.happygiraffe.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9A0285FBD; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:54:57 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:54:57 +0100 To: Lars Eggert Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gerrit_K=FChn?= , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Searching for something like schemes Message-ID: <20020725175457.A46854@cathbad.happygiraffe.net> References: <20020725121153.J15605@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <3D3F6D6F.4010408@isi.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3D3F6D6F.4010408@isi.edu>; from larse@ISI.EDU on Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 12:15:59PM +0900 X-Warning: Incoming message from The Big Giant Head! X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 X-Uptime: 5:53PM up 8:14, 3 users, load averages: 1.00, 0.88, 0.84 From: dom@happygiraffe.net (Dominic Mitchell) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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