Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 07:15:01 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using different IP config than what DHCP provides Message-ID: <44r5loc6a2.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <hrutbc$1s1l$1@gal.iecc.com> (John Levine's message of "Thu, 6 May 2010 17:13:16 %2B0000 (UTC)") References: <hrutbc$1s1l$1@gal.iecc.com>
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John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> writes: > I run FreeBSD 8.0 on my laptop, works great, when I take it with me I > open it up, wpa_supplicanr finds a network and DHCP configures it. > > On a few networks, though, I want to use a different network setup than > the one that DHCP provides. Is there any reasonable way to arrange > so that when I'm connected to specific network SSIDs, It runs a config > script I write rather than running dhclient, perhaps with a shim in > front of dhclient? > > The situation, in case you're wondering, is that the wifi in most of > the local coffee shops is run by the same ISP that hosts my servers, > and when I'm on their network, I want to set up in my IP range rather > than the default one DHCP offers. It is a pain to have to kill > dhclient and do the ifconfig and route commands manually. There are enough hooks in dhclient-script(8) to do this, assuming you have some way for the system to recognize where it is programatically. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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