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Date:      Thu, 5 Sep 2002 16:25:08 +0100
From:      Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: handling several network configs
Message-ID:  <20020905152508.GF91519@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209051113310.24913-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209051113310.24913-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>

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On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:16:51AM -0400, John Bleichert wrote:
> 
> Hello all
> 
> My laptop lives on several rather different networks - some DHCP, some 
> not, with fixed network parameters. Are there any utilities I can use to 
> manage these network configs i.e. pick one after system boot? Or should I 
> just spend a few days in the man pages and RC files, figure out what gets 
> written where at network bringup and script accordingly?
> 
> In Linux I just wrote a shell script to accept an arg and configure the 
> network accordingly. Too bad it's not portable ;-)

Take a look at sysutils/personality in the ports.  I think it does what
you want, but I have never used it so can't offer anything definite.

Dan

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