[ I'm Cc: debian-laptop as it's more a laptop issue than a powerpc one. ]
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:09:51PM -0400, J. Steinbachs wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, NeilFred Picciotto wrote:
>
> > > Here's a version of what's in my /etc/network/interfaces. You can
> > > basically put anything after "up" -- see man interfaces(5).
> >
> > this is a pretty slick way of doing it. but does anyone have a convenient
> > way of switching between multiple locations (with different network
> > passwords, and so on)?
>
> Check out QuickSwitch http://www.muthanna.com/quickswitch/Docs/docs.html
>
> -jennifer
Since January 2000 (with slink on Intel laptop), I study this problem and I
had a good solution that handles different ISPs thru PPP and different
SCHEMEs thru PCMCIA ethernet card.
Today, my laptop has a builtin ethernet card so I am studying again how to
switch between different network locations. In fact, I am studying only
the glue on top of the following tools: dnrd, masqmail and wwwoffle.
- dnrd Domain Name Relay Daemon allow all your running programs to use new
nameservers. Setup 127.0.0.1 as primary nameserver and dnrd will
forward requests to real nameservers.
- masqmail is a MTA (mail transport agent). It has special support for
connections to different ISPs.
- wwwoffle is a simple proxy server with special features for use with
dial-up internet links. In fact I had need it only because I can't
direct use HTTP at work. You need to use a perl script that's not in
debian package but in upstream tarball.
I discover today package noffle ``It does for NNTP what wwwoffle does
for HTTP'' but I have not try it yet.
With woody, /etc/network/interfaces can be setup to auto detect current
location with special mapping read examples in file
/usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples/network-interfaces.gz
I use the following basic glue in /etc/network/interfaces:
#auto eth0
mapping eth0
script /etc/network/map-scheme.sh
map Work eth0-work
map Home eth0-home
iface eth0-work inet static
address 172.16.100.164
netmask 255.255.0.0
network 172.16.0.0
broadcast 172.16.255.255
gateway 172.16.1.254
up /bin/echo Work > /tmp/connect_route || true
down /bin/rm /tmp/connect_route || true
up /usr/sbin/dnrd -s 172.16.15.130 -s 172.16.15.129 || true
down /usr/sbin/dnrd || true
The script /etc/network/map-scheme.sh use content of file
/etc/network/scheme to select current location.
#!/bin/sh
iface="$1"
which=""
[ -f /etc/network/scheme ] || exit 1
lookup=$(cat /etc/network/scheme)
while read testval scheme; do
if [ "$which" ]; then continue; fi
if [ "$lookup" = "$testval" ]; then which="$scheme"; fi
done
if [ "$which" ]; then echo $which; exit 0; fi
exit 1
Switching location is then done by the small script:
#!/bin/sh
SCHEME=${1:-"none"}
DEVICE=${2:-"eth0"}
echo "$SCHEME" > /etc/network/scheme
egrep -q "^$DEVICE=" /etc/network/ifstate && /sbin/ifdown $DEVICE
/sbin/ifup $DEVICE
My .02 euro cents
--
Edouard G. Parmelan
http://egp.free.fr
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