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Date:      Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:07:03 +0200 (METDST)
From:      hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
To:        cshenton@uucom.com (Chris Shenton)
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Laptop address acquisition, static/dynamic, home/work
Message-ID:  <m0zGlpn-0000fYC@hcswork.hcs.de>
In-Reply-To: <86u32h746y.fsf@samizdat.uucom.com> from Chris Shenton at "Sep 9, 98 10:26:13 am"

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>From the keyboard of Chris Shenton:

> I'm tired of manually changing the IP, name, defaultroute, and
> resolv.conf when I drag it between home (static IP) and work
> (corporate DHCP, I manually assign).  I guess I could build a DHCP
> client for the laptop and set up DHCP at home, but was looking for a
> simpler solution.

Once i write a package called "setnetparms" to do this via a configurable
curses menu because i had the very same problem and got tired of it. I'm
currently enhancing it and make it fit into 2.2.7 (it was 2.1.7). In case
you are interested in testing it, i can put it somewhere for download.

hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis                                    Tel   +49 40 559747-70
HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH                Fax   +49 40 559747-77
Oldesloer Strasse 97-99                               Mail  hm [at] hcs.de
22457 Hamburg                                         WWW   http://www.hcs.de

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