Bug#118996: ITP: guessnet -- Guess what network is connected
On 10-Nov-2001 Enrico Zini wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Version: N/A; reported 2001-11-10
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name : guessnet
> Version : 0.9
> Upstream Author : Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
> * URL : http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zinie/en/guessnet
> * License : GPL
> Description : Guess what network is connected to an ethernet device
> (can be used as a "script" for ifupdown)
>
> Based on the network detecting code of laptop-netconf, guessnet tries to
> guess
> what network an ethernet device is currently connected to, using fake ARP
> requests.
>
> It has been written to be coupled with the debian ifupdown package to achieve
> automatic network detection and configuration, but it can be used stand-alone
> to implement smart network scripts.
>
You realize we already have THREE (maybe four) different packages which do this
in Debian right now.
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