Re: Network configuration proposal: little summary

["Martin Bialasinski" <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>]

* "Andrew" == Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.ne.mediaone.net> wrote:

Andrew> On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 03:42:32PM +0200, Rene Mayrhofer wrote:
>> 2. Schemes are a very good idea and they will definitely go into the
>> system, even if the decision is to write it from scratch.

Andrew> Idea: It would be very cool if schemes could be auto-selected
Andrew> based on a bootp/dhcp response (or lack thereof, or even more
Andrew> baroque trick).

Do you know divine? From freshmeat:

  divine will use ARP requests to look for hosts that are always up in
  the networks that you frequently use your laptop in and then set the
  IP configuration including /etc/resolv.conf and write proxy settings
  in /etc/proxy. A perl script to edit your netscape 4 preferences is
  included. You can also run a custom script for each network to edit
  /etc/printcap or /etc/issue or whatever you feel like. The ARP
  method is much quicker than the "ping" method that other solutions
  use.

It is GPLed, so code could be used from it.

Ciao,
	Martin