From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Jan 31 07:43:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA27702 for mobile-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 07:43:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from hcshh.hcs.de (hcshh.hcs.de [194.49.17.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA27695 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 07:43:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from hcswork.hcs.de by hcshh.hcs.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #9) id m0vqL7U-000TOuC; Fri, 31 Jan 97 16:43 MET Received: by hcswork.hcs.de (Smail3.1.29.0 #12) id m0vqL7O-0000ayC; Fri, 31 Jan 97 16:43 MET Message-Id: From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: setnetparms - setup network environment at boot time To: mobile@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 16:43:09 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: hm@hcs.de Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, i have just uploaded a small utility package to ftp.freebsd.org into FreeBSD/incoming with filename setnetparms.tar.gz which i think is very useful in FreeBSD based laptop environments. It lets you specify i.e. the IP address, subnetmask, hostname and other parameter at boot time in a menu based utility which is configurable by very(!) simple text files. I'm using it for quite some time now on my laptop to simply plug into the networks of customers which don't even know what bootp or DHCP is. It lacks any form of error detection or recovery, it has no manual pages and if i would see this code for the first time i would say that its a hack. Constructive feedback welcome! Have fun, hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Hamburg, Europe In their infinite wisdom, the folks at HP have decided that mere mortals such as you and I don't need to know what the kernel's proc structure looks like. (William LeFebvre, top 3.4 README, HP-UX 10.10)