Date: 28 Oct 1997 11:10:32 +0000 From: Simon Marlow <simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do you solve... Message-ID: <t63elmrvmf.fsf@solander.dcs.gla.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp's message of Mon, 27 Oct 1997 19:29:23 %2B0100 References: <1548.877976963@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> writes: > >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. Alternatively, you can try to do it automatically: my pccard_ether tries each possible ifconfig in turn, pinging a known address to find out where it is. When a successful ping happens, it continues to configure the system appropriately for the location. Admittedly, this is a hack, but it works fine. Cheers, Simon -- Simon Marlow simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk University of Glasgow http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~simonm/ finger for PGP public key
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