On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:55:30PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Werner Heuser wrote: > >> know intuitively and I think thje other is discover. There is at > >> least two more. > > `divine' and maybe some of the ARP packages. > > `whereami', which is a suite to detect and configure the network. > Probably requires a little more scripting knowledge than some of the > others, though. >
I'm perfectly happy to use "cardctl scheme" and /etc/pcmcia/network.opts to switch between networks. The thing I'd find autodetection useful for is shuffling /etc/exim.conf around, one configuration for dialup (setting the ISP's SMTP server as mailserver, to avoid rejection from spam-preventing recipients, which reject mail from dial-up sources) and one for LAN ethernet, allowing a direct SMTP connection (i.e. using exim itself as the mail server). Is this the sort of situation these network detection programs are designed for? Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
