Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 16:25:08 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: handling several network configs Message-ID: <20020905152508.GF91519@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209051113310.24913-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209051113310.24913-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
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On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:16:51AM -0400, John Bleichert wrote: > > Hello all > > My laptop lives on several rather different networks - some DHCP, some > not, with fixed network parameters. Are there any utilities I can use to > manage these network configs i.e. pick one after system boot? Or should I > just spend a few days in the man pages and RC files, figure out what gets > written where at network bringup and script accordingly? > > In Linux I just wrote a shell script to accept an arg and configure the > network accordingly. Too bad it's not portable ;-) Take a look at sysutils/personality in the ports. I think it does what you want, but I have never used it so can't offer anything definite. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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