Re: Network discovering... too many options

[Vincent Bernat <bernat@free.fr>]

OoO Vers la fin de l'après-midi du jeudi 02 janvier 2003, vers 16:51,
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org> disait:

>     Package: whereami
[...]
>  This is the one that pops up a configuration screen at boot up,
>  right?

I use it and it doesn't pop anything since it tries to determine on
which network you are and then executes several actions depending on
your preceding and current network.

>  Any comments?  The current configuration on the other laptop is based
>  arround guessnet.  It basically tries a couple of IP/MAC pairs and then
>  falls back to dhcp.  There's an annoying pause when the laptop in
>  plugged to a new network where there's no DHCP server, but other than
>  that, I'm mostly happy.

Some hackers tools have some possibilities to try to "divine" the
network without any information nor DHCP server :

 <url:http://www.thehackerschoice.com/thc-rut>

I don't think there is an universal method to do that. There are ICMP
message to get network masks but they are generally not honored...
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