On Thursday 05 June 2003 07:27, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 02:38, Tony Godshall wrote: > > There's been a lot of discussion on this list about tools to > > detect which network a laptop is connected to and configure > > various things. [...] I've tried several, and I think I > > advocated whereami to someone at some point > > whereami works but it is harder to configure than ifscout > and (more seriousl) is incompatible with ifupdown, the > standard network-interface management package.
I am not at all sure I understand what you mean that whereami and ifupdown are incompatible. I use them both on my machine all the time. > > > but it seems Thomas Hood's > > ifupdown-roaming is the best so far! His solution has the > > configuration reside entirely in /etc/networks/interfaces. > > And in many instances needs almost no configuration at all. > > Yes. > > Please note that the features of ifscout are in the process > of being integrated into guessnet by the intrepid Enrico > Zini. The work is not yet complete; the guessnet release in > sid (0.21) is broken and lacks some important features. > However, once the work is done, guessnet will work like > ifscout, only faster. :)
