Re: best practice for adapting to different environments?
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 07:06, Andrew McMillan wrote:
>
> I, for one, would certainly love to see it cleaned up. I am the author
> of whereami, so naturally I use that myself, but some people do find it
> a bit arcane, or overkill.
A fine tool it is, but I do find it overkill.
>
> One basic rule that I think does work is that where there is a LAN then
> don't test for any sort of a WLAN, even if it is an unrecognised one.
> This kind of approach goes against the grain for a non-laptop
> configuration however, where people generally want to use all available
> interfaces at the same time. I think this dichotomy is what makes it
> harder to fit laptop usage within the ifup/down framework without some
> sort of manual work.
Really? For those of us without WLAN, I would think ifup/ifdown works great.
It's certainly all _I_ need.
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derek
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