From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 31 19:49:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA19764 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 19:49:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line1.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA19759 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 19:49:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA11182; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 19:49:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 19:49:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Jerry Kelley cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Changing network identities on the fly In-Reply-To: <33E007CD.41C67EA6@iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Jerry Kelley wrote: > 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. Not really. BSD is pretty single-minded when it comes to network configuration. Not to say that it won't work (PPP could care less what the local IP/name is since it configures it's own interface, and the DNS will still work as long as it isn't firewalled), but it's not as easy as say MS with their PPP `extensions'. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo