Re: How to manager different network environments?
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 05:42, Craig Genner wrote:
> I'm going to be in a similar situation soon where I will be swapping network
> locations but I will be using an inbuilt network device, not a pcmcia card.
> How would I also get to autodetect when the network cable has been plugged
> in and then start the network services, and stop the same services when it
> is unplugged.
> With pcmcia you just look for the card but it would be harder with a network
> cable
Yes. I plug my cable in before opening the lid, and then whereami runs
on the apm resume event.
I want to add some sort of cable detection daemon though, and trigger on
that, or get one of the existing ones to provide a it more of an
interface that whereami can use.
Cheers,
Andrew.
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