On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:15:28PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > It would be really "cool"(tm) if I didn't have to reconfigure every > > program on my laptop to use a different proxy server every time I plug > > it into a different network. > The thing is that MS has an extension for DHCP to do this, the code is 252, > it works only with IE in windows, but I've read it also works with konqueror > in kde, I haven't tried this in Debian, though, anybody has tried this? > I think it would be good if we could get this working. > Both dhcp (version 2) and dhcp3-server (version 3) support this extension if > you declare it, here are a couple of examples: On the client side, however, at least dhcp3-client requires recompiling for each option you want to export to the client hook scripts. This was recently done for the netbios options that Samba uses. I know there are many more unexported options that are potentially useful to other packages, including ntp timeserver information; it might be nice to gather a list of them all at once for submission to the dhcp3 maintainers, so they're not constantly recompiling to special-case each attribute. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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