Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 22:34:37 -0500 From: Jerry Kelley <jerryk@iquest.net> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Changing network identities on the fly Message-ID: <33E007CD.41C67EA6@iquest.net>
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I currently have two PPP connections that I make: one to work; and
one to my ISP. Now, my system spends more time connected to my ISP
than to work so I initially configured it to use the hostname used
in my ISP link. I'm also running routed and have an entry in
/etc/resolv.conf to point to my ISP's name server.
The obvious question that I'm coming to is this: is there a "good"
or clean way to go back and forth between network identities? I'm
using user-mode ppp and have entries for work and my ISP.
I can easily enough run 'ppp {work | isp}' and connect. The real
tricky part comes in when I want to set up the network daemons on
the fly and change things like the routing table and so on.
I realize that I could write a script to go through and make all the
changes as needed and start ppp with the proper destination. However,
before I start down that path I'd like to know if anyone else has
experienced this schizophrenic (sp) situation and how they went about
handling it.
Thanks in advance, Sybil.
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Jerry Kelley
jerryk@iquest.net
"Expectations are life's greatest dangers."
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