From: "Daniel Andor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:21:12PM +0000, Ross Burton wrote: > > I've found divine, intuitively and laptop-netconf which all appear to do > > roughly the same thing... what is best? The laptop will be running in > > a variety of configurations: > > > > * home, connected to LAN (and net via IP NAT on my desktop) > > * work, connected to LAN (etc) > > * somewhere else > > > > Of course for these settings I need different IP addresses for > > DNS/proxy/SMTP servers etc. What tool is best suited for my needs? > > add laptop-net (distint from laptop-netconf) which I find quite handy. > Since I use my X21 with both LAN and WLAN, I only want to configure my > LAN card when I've plugged the cable in. laptop-net detects the > link-beat and can configure your interface.
I like the look of laptop-net, though my current NIC is too old to support MII & link-beat detection, but as near as I can tell laptop-net needs to be used in conjunction with on e of the methods Ross mentioned because it doesn't do ARP lookups - you have to _tell_ it what scheme to use. I'm planning to use guessnet, not because it's intrinsicly better than any of the others but because it returns a scheme name, so I can use: /etc/init.d/laptop-net scheme `guessnet` -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
