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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.  

Don't worry about the PPP, the ppp package handles that.  With your
ethernet interfaces, make two entries in /etc/network/interfaces, one
with your static settings and the other with the DHCP settings.
Comment one out uncomment the other, and restart networking to switch
between them.

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