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Date:      Tue, 8 May 2001 08:51:47 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@cs.unm.edu>
To:        Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Laptop on 2 networks - solutions ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105080851150.5323-100000@underground.cs.unm.edu>
In-Reply-To: <m1ae4ngaj3.fsf@zaphod.realtime.co.uk>

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On 8 May 2001, Wayne Pascoe wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I would be interested in hearing of solutions from people who use a
> laptop on two different systems. 
> 
> I use my laptop at home (192.168.1.0/24) and at work
> (192.168.2.0/24). At the moment, in /etc I have rc.conf.home and
> rc.conf.work. Each of these has IP configs for the correct network. I
> also have resolv.conf.home and resolv.conf.work. 
> 
> I have a script that copies the appropriate conf files into place, and
> then I reboot.
> 
> This all seems far more clumsy than needs be. Is there any better
> solution than this out there?
> 
> Also, I note that if I have fxp0 set to my home address and add an
> alias to fxp0 of my work address, I am able to ping machines in my
> work network. All I then have to do is change my gateway, as it seems
> I can't have two routes for 0.0.0.0/0 (error message :
> route: writing to routing socket: File exists
> add net 0.0.0.0 gateway 192.168.1.30: File exists)
> 
> Any tips on this would be great! Thanks :)

Is using DHCP out of the question? That would allow you to not have to
worry about this at all.

Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/
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