On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 09:00 -0400, Mark Roach wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 20:18 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
>
> > Are there any real-world network profiles which cannot be detected? My
> > laptop brings eth0 (built-in ethernet) up when I plug a wire in and
> > performs ARP pings to detect where it is, configuring itself and
> > resetting various applications on demand. This is done by
> > ifplugd/guessnet/resolvconf and works very well.
>
> I didn't have a chance yesterday to look at these tools, but have
> started to today. They seem very useful, if a bit daunting. One of my
> goals is to allow the user to add a new network at the time they plug
> in. Manually editing the interfaces file is definitely not something
> that a user should have to do to get their network connection working.
> Editing /etc/waproamd/scripts/essid:roach is not something I want to do
> myself.
Note that Red Hat are writing a very similar tool to what you are
proposing, including handling ESSID etc etc magically. Maybe you should
contact Havoc and find out who is writing it.
Ross
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