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Date:      Tue, 28 Oct 1997 07:43:27 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How do you solve... 
Message-ID:  <3178.878021007@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:06:04 MST." <199710272106.OAA05353@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <199710272106.OAA05353@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes:
>In message <1548.877976963@critter.freebsd.dk> Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>: 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.
>
>So you type "home" and then plug the ethernet card in when you get
>home in the evenings?  Then /etc/pccard.ether does its magic, no?

yes.

	if [ -f /var/tmp/@work ] ;
		ifconfig this that and something
		echo "bla\nbla\nbla" > /etc/resolv.conf
	else
		ifconfig something quite different
		echo "mumble\nmumble\nmumble" > /etc/resolv.conf
	fi

>I was thinking of doing DHCP or even a simple ifconfig <home-addr>
>ping home-host failure -> ifconfig <work-addr> ping work-host failure
>-> loop a reasonable number of times, then prompt with a Tk program or
>something like that.  And then once I know where I am, I can wonk
>resolv.conf, et al to do the right thing.

Been there done that.  I found out the above worked better for me.
I also have some scripts for another couple of places I go occasionally.

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



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