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To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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Subject: Re: How do you solve... 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Oct 1997 09:05:20 MST."
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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 19:29:23 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <199710271605.JAA04239@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes:
>
>OK.  I have a Libretto that I just purchased.  A fun box.  I'm in the
>process of shrinking the FAT partition down to put FreeBSD onto the
>box and have a question.
>
>I take it back and forth between home and work.  I'd like it to have
>different IP numbers at the two location.  I'd love for this to be
>completely automatic.  Any chance of that happening?  Is DHCP what I
>want to use?

I have two small aliases that 

	home	(rm -f /var/tmp/@work)
	work	(touch /var/tmp/@work)

my /etc/pccard.ether (or whatever it is called today) looks for
this file and decideds which IP to configure.  Works great.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."