Re: two different netenvs (work and home)
Nick Hastings wrote:
Hi,
I have looked at /etc/init.d/networking and it seems quite low level, so
it looks I should run this no matter what. I guess what I want to do is
cut in with my script before the dhcp stuff starts, so I can choose not
to use it, but after the network card is activated for the operating system.
If this is the case I'm guessing you are using a pcmcia nic. Yes? If so
the script you should be looking at is /etc/init.d/pcmcia and have a
look at the files in /etc/pcmcia/, particularly
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts.
No I am not using a pcmcia nic, but the below applies equally well.
I don't know anything about pptp, (other than what came out of
"apt-cache show pptp-linux") so I can't give you any hints there.
What I can say is that I use my laptop with three different static IPs,
two very different DHCP servers and with ppp over a modem. I found
that the package "switchconf" handles changing the configurations like
a champ. So: apt-cache show switchconf.
Thanks, for the advice, I have installed it, and at the moment am trying
to configure the eth0 to understand the networking stuff more on linux.
Then I will spend some time with the man pages and get switchconf working.
Thanks for the advice.
rohan
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