Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 23:43:50 -0500 From: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: switching between connected/disconnected operation? Message-ID: <20000321234350.D9584@stat.Duke.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20000321233526.F85043@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>; from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 11:35:26PM -0500 References: <14551.49718.603919.823550@hbo.isi.edu> <20000321233526.F85043@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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Hi All-
Way back in October, Mike Smith sent the following email
to -mobile with a personality script that manipulates the
computers environment. I have not played with it, but I
have held on to it.
Maybe it would fit the bill. I have given the relevant
headers below (the email is quite large since it contains
the script and such):
To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: profile manager for FreeBSD working in different environments ?
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 Oct 1999 07:58:03 +0200."
<19991021075803.A14781@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 08:56:46 -0700
From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Crist J. Clark stated:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 06:40:54PM +0000, Lars Eggert wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > we're trying to come up with a way to configure our laptops so that we
> > can easily switch between connected (i.e. we have a net) and
> > disconnected (we have no net) states. This does not need to be
> > automatic (would be nice though), having users type "net on|off" in a
> > shell is perfectly fine.
> >
> > Looking at /etc, it seems that what we'd like requires non-trivial
> > changes to the configuration; the laptops we'd like this for run a
> > number of services that would need to be started/stopped: NIS, NFS
> > (clients), inetd, sendmail, sshd, lpd, amd, named, etc. Some of these
> > should be okay to leave running when disconnecting (e.g. inetd, sshd).
> > Others (NIS, NFS, amd) must be stopped/restarted.
> >
> > Has anyone ever done this? How? Any pointers? This is for 4.0-RELEASE,
> > btw.
>
> I am very interested in this too, and what I would like to do is even
> more complicated. There are four basic network states I would have my
> notebook in,
>
> 1) Ethernet on 192.168.x.0 LAN in my apartment
>
> 2) Ethernet on 192.168.y.0 LAN in my office
>
> 3) Dial-in, PPP, to the registered net in the office
>
> 4) Stand-alone
>
> Some states would preferably have NFS mounted volumes; some would even
> want to run services like NIS or Samba. All networked states need to
> have DNS handled from both the standpoint of different servers and
> what the machine gives itself for the domain portion of the hostname.
>
> Right now, I need to get in there and do some serious tweaking as root
> to get one setup to work after being in another. Ideally, I'd want to
> make the computer figure out which net it is on during boot, but I
> think this might not be the level to start at. My first goal is to
> script or otherwise automate the changes root does to go from one
> state to the other.
>
> I am sure others out there have wanted to use their notebooks in ways
> like this. How have you all handled it?
> --
> Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
>
>
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