From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Sep 9 08:04:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24553 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 08:04:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hcshh.hcs.de (hcshh.hcs.de [194.123.40.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA24545 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 08:04:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hm@hcs.de) Received: from hcswork.hcs.de([192.76.124.5]) (1797 bytes) by hcshh.hcs.de via sendmail with P:smtp/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:04:25 +0200 (METDST) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2 built 1998-Jun-26) Received: by hcswork.hcs.de (Smail3.1.29.0 #12) id m0zGlpn-0000fYC; Wed, 9 Sep 98 17:07 METDST Message-Id: From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: Laptop address acquisition, static/dynamic, home/work In-Reply-To: <86u32h746y.fsf@samizdat.uucom.com> from Chris Shenton at "Sep 9, 98 10:26:13 am" To: cshenton@uucom.com (Chris Shenton) Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:07:03 +0200 (METDST) Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: hm@hcs.de Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >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 -- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message