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Re: How to Manage Linux laptops on and off the network?



On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:39:38PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 02:54:28PM -0800, Michael Perry wrote:
> >Quoting Boutet, Jeff on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 12:40:00PM -0800:
> >> I know this is more a sys admin thing. But it is somewhat relavent.
> >> 
> >> My company is currently in the process of replacing all the Linux
> >> development desktops for laptops, as to increase our developers mobility.
> >> Thus the laptop will have to perform in 3 modes no network, our network,
> >> someone else's network (using DHCP). Other than custom scripts, run levels,
> >> rysc, anyone have any idea's? 
> 
> I'd heartily recommend divine - I've got it set up on a work laptop.
> It seamlessly detects several different company networks and my home
> networks and with some local scripting it's very powerful.

As an alternative to divine, I'd recommend intuitively, which was
originally based on divine, but has a somewhat nicer configuration file
format.  It also has some other features, but since I use it as a plugin to
whereami, I don't really use them.
-- 
David Roundy
http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/



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