On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, NeilFred Picciotto wrote: > this is a pretty slick way of doing it. but does anyone have a convenient > way of switching between multiple locations (with different network > passwords, and so on)?
Well, I wrote myself a little shell script that I keep in /usr/local/bin/netswitch: #!/bin/sh PATH=/sbin:$PATH cp /etc/resolv.conf.$1 /etc/resolv.conf cp /etc/network/interfaces.$1 /etc/network/interfaces /sbin/ifdown eth0 /sbin/ifup eth0 Then I can just keep resolv.conf and interface files with the name of the locations tagged on the end, i.e.: /etc/resolv.conf.home /etc/resolv.conf.work /etc/network/interfaces.home /etc/network/interfaces.lynden ...and when I go to a new location, I just pop up terminal and type netswitch home or netswitch work or netswitch foo as required (I'm currently managing four different configurations this way). I'm sure this could be polished up quite a bit, but it gets the job done... -raf
