Re: Mobile network configuration
Andy Bastien <lists@yuggoth.net> writes:
AB> If you don't have enough options already, you can try the ifup/ifdown
AB> stuff that comes with debian. Do a "man interfaces" to find out about
AB> how to set up the mappings for multiple configurations of a single
AB> interface
I was looking at that, and am leaning towards doing something that way
myself anyways (in spite of other packages providing possibly useful
wrappers). But interfaces(5) basically says, "yeah, there's this
mapping script you can write" but doesn't say what it should do,
really. Looking at the examples gives some possibly useful context.
What I might try doing is writing up something to either (a) force the
wireless card to try a specific ESSID and see if there's signal, or
(b) force an arp query for known machines on local networks (these
seeming to be the predominant ways the wrapper packages figure out
where in the world they are). Then hopefully the implementation will
come down to one fairly short script, plus some pre-existing support
in ifupdown. It'd be nice if that worked well. Will report...
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