Re: Network discovering... too many options

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>]

 Thanks for the feedback.  Following up to my own post:

 >     Package: intuitively
 >     Description: Automatic IP configuration detection for laptops
 >      A utility to locate current network address via arp requests and
 >      perform heavy reconfigurations based on its findings.
 > 
 >      "intuitively" is intended for laptop users or people who use their
 >      machines in different networks all the time. It is meant to be run
 >      from the PCMCIA network initialization scripts or the command line.
 > 
 >  Sounds like guessnet plus the "heavy configuration" stuff.  I guess
 >  it's something like /etc/divine/{network}/{up,down}.d/{dd}{stuff}, is
 >  that it?  Is the network detection algorithm different?

 Ok, now I know what that description means: configuration files will be
 symlinked to /etc/intuitively/{network}/, that sounds ok.  The only
 problem I see with intuitively is that it doesn't really mix with
 ifup/ifdown.  The program ifup runs is expected to output a single line
 with the name of the current network.  According to the docs the script
 gets a number of parameters which are specified in
 /etc/network/interfaces (I say according to the docs because the
 implementation is doing something else).  If I'm not mistaken, it'd be
 enough to get a list of IP-MAC pairs, along with the corresponding
 network name.  Something like:

    $ intuitively IP MAC IP MAC NAME IP MAC NAME ...

 intuitively would then find the network and then do the symlink stuff.

 >     Package: ifplugd
 > 
 >  Sounds like a nice addition to guessnet and intuitively.

 If you don't have it already, install this.  It's simply cool.

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