Re: Network discovering... too many options
what if one environment requires using mii-tool. eg. mii-tool -F 10BaseT-hd
Can whereami or anything else handle this case?
ilia.
On 06 Jan 2003 08:39:13 +1300
Andrew McMillan <andrew@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 04:51, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >
> > Package: whereami
> > Description: Automatically reconfigure your (laptop) system [...]
> > whereami is a set of useful scripts and a coordinating system for
> > automatically re-locating your computer within the current
> > (network) environment.
> >
> > Typically, you would use whereami to automatically detect and
> > re-configure your laptop when you move between a variety of diverse
> > networks and/or docking environments.
> >
> > Although whereami will work best if all of your networks assign
> > addresses through dhcp, this is not a pre-requisite and the system
> > allows any technique to be used to ascertain the new location with
> > as little ongoing user intervention as possible.
> >
> > Having ascertained the correct location, whereami will run
> > appropriate (user-configured) scripts to adjust the laptop
> > operation to suit the current environment.
>
> I'm the maintainer (and upstream) of whereami, so no doubt I show a
> little bias :-)
>
> whereami deals with multiple ethernet interfaces and also can be
> configured to recognise other hardware situations, such as a docking
> station.
>
> It hooks into ifplugd (if desired) to handle automatic reconfiguration
> when you plug the network cable into an existing ethernet and it hooks
> into pcmcia to reconfigure on insertion of a pcmcia card.
>
> It doesn't pop up a configuration screen on boot (although it does run
> on boot) - I have attempted to make it operate as automatically as
> possible, although I do want to develop a GUI of some kind to make
> maintenance of the two configuration files (location detection and
> reconfiguration) more easily maintained by the uninitiated.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew.
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