Hello, I have a problem which is probably going to be more and more common with the availability of DSL and cable modems. I need to use my laptop on a LAN where I have a static IP, at home where I have DSL (dynamic IP with pppoe) and while traveling via the modem with ppp. Currently upon boot it starts eth0 with my static IP configuration. If I am at home it cannot start this way, rather it must use pppoe and should start with:
ifconfig eth0 up 0.0.0.0 /etc/init.d/ppp start Upon booting at home I have to pull out my ethernet pcmcia card else ntpdate will hang since eth0 was not started in the above fashion. What I would like is (if possible) for the computer to detect if I am on the LAN and start up services with the static IP configuration. If it detects I am on my DSL connection to start services for a dynamic IP and run pppoe. And lastly, if there is no ethernet signal then do nothing so modem/ppp will work as before. I realize it cannot "detect" anything unless services are already started so it might have to try several configurations and if it doesn't detect the network then switch to the next configuration. Is there a package that will do this? Divine? Netenv? dhcpcd?? Much thanks, Matt
