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Re: Network options



On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 11:08:17AM -0500, Greg Sidelinger wrote:
> I was wondering if there are any nice debian packages that allow a user to
> easily change their network settings.  I use different networks with my
> system and dhcp is not the way to go with some of them.  I use dhcp
> sometimes, need a static others and sometimes even use PPP.  It all
> depends on where I'm at and what I'm doing. I just want to pick what
> network config to use, ex HOME, WORK, MODEM, lalalala from a list and have
> them applied.  I could write some simple scripts to do it for me but I'm
> lazy and was wondering if debian all ready had something to handle it.

Check out package "laptop-net" or "whereami".

I used "apt-cache search dhcp" to discover these packages ...

-- 
Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
  They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
  temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
          -- Benjamin Franklin



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