Re: Laptop, DHCP & Co
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:54:31PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2003 14:27:22 -0300 (ART)
> Javier Bertoli <javier@brtl.com.ar> wrote:
> > I'm currently using ifupdown-roaming. It's a nice new package,
> > similar to whereami and others, that tries to integrate itself
> > smoothly with ifupdown, solving the problems the others have.
>
> The latest news about ifupdown-roaming is that the features of
> ifscout are in the process of being integrated into guessnet,
> including the most important convenience feature: that of using
> /etc/network/interfaces as its configuration file. As of
> release 0.18 (in unstable), guessnet is buggy and is still missing
> some of ifscout's features, but before long it should be able
> to supersede ifscout. In the process, the "physical interface
> group" feature and the "search sequence" feature are being
> abandoned. If either of these is important to you, let me know,
> and let me know why; if necessary they can be reimplemented in
> guessnet. When guessnet is a bit more stable I'll report again
> to this list.
First, let me say that I jave not liiked at this package. Having said that,
I am in the process of seting up a Debian laptop that will need to
participate in a total of )at least) 7 networks. For me, being able to
control the order that these are checked in would be a _very nice- feature.
I'm presently using a perl script that does _not- have this capability, and
it means thta one some networks it takes _a long_ time to coem up. I would
prefer that this was not the case on my home, or promary work networks.
Also, will this package be able to deal with things like reconfiguring
galeons' proxy, seting passive ftp or not, and falling back to dhcp, when
all else fails?
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