From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Sep 9 09:31:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA06388 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 09:31:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from glynnis.copacetic.net (glynnis.copacetic.net [206.25.93.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA06380 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 09:31:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@copacetic.net) Received: from localhost (steve@localhost) by glynnis.copacetic.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA08386 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 12:26:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from steve@copacetic.net) Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 12:26:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Steve Bernacki Jr." X-Sender: steve@glynnis To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop address acquisition, static/dynamic, home/work In-Reply-To: <86u32h746y.fsf@samizdat.uucom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 9 Sep 1998, Chris Shenton wrote: > Any thoughts? Perhaps DHCP client with a timeout in the init script > which assigns the last address if it doesn't get a DHCP response? > Or should I just bite the bullet and "do the right thing"? > I've got a small perl script that I run out of /etc/rc apon bootup that reads in a configuration file and prints out a little menu, prompting you to choose which network you're connected to. It remembers the last menu item selected and will auto-default to that if no input is detected after 5 seconds. If anyone is interested in it, I'll be glad to post it to an ftp site. -S To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message