Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 10:02:52 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Jerry Kelley <jerryk@iquest.net>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Changing network identities on the fly Message-ID: <199708020902.KAA11519@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Jul 1997 19:49:03 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970731194639.11158D-100000@localhost>
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> On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Jerry Kelley wrote: > > > I currently have two PPP connections that I make: one to work; and > > one to my ISP. Now, my system spends more time connected to my ISP > > than to work so I initially configured it to use the hostname used > > in my ISP link. I'm also running routed and have an entry in > > /etc/resolv.conf to point to my ISP's name server. > > > > The obvious question that I'm coming to is this: is there a "good" > > or clean way to go back and forth between network identities? I'm > > using user-mode ppp and have entries for work and my ISP. > > Not really. BSD is pretty single-minded when it comes to network > configuration. Not to say that it won't work (PPP could care less what > the local IP/name is since it configures it's own interface, and the DNS > will still work as long as it isn't firewalled), but it's not as easy as > say MS with their PPP `extensions'. I would think the best way to overcome the resolver stuff is to config your own nameserver and put all of the work/ISP nameservers in as forwarders (you probably want "options forward-only" too. I'm not sure how this works in real life though (do you still get a horrible timeout while it figures out that the first DNS isn't reachable). The alternative is a ppp.linkup script that sets up resolv.conf. > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo > -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org> <http://www.awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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