> * Thoughts on network detection and configuration on Debian > > There are a lot of packages for automatic network detection and > reconfiguration on debian: whereami, divine, intuitively, > laptop-netconf, laptop-net, netenv and maybe others. IMHO they all have > a problem: they do network detection AND reconfiguration. This is a > problem because Debian already has a way to configure network > interfaces, provided by the base package ifupdown.
I wouldn't say it's a "problem" - all of those (that I have tried) can coexist with ifupdown > ifupdown already provides a way to define configuration profiles, and > hooks for selecting the good one. This means that Debian does not need > a unique tool for network detection AND reconfiguration, but two > different tools, one for network detection and one for system > reconfiguration. True. guessnet only detects the network and returns a scheme name that you can use elsewhere. The examples supplied with it specifically use ifupdown for reconfiguration. laptop-net, otoh, detects link-beats (and the other methods I've tried, don't) but it can't do an arping, so I find myself having to use two different tools for network detection. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
