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Hi all, |
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One gentoo notebook running wicd, three general classes of network logon used |
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frequently (dhpc always): |
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work - mostly wired, occasionally wireless. There's a plethora of APs to pick |
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from, some official, some rogue. And not all end up being served by the |
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same dhcp server, or even be in sync with each other. |
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home - Easy one. Usually wireless, sometimes wired. I control the router. |
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everything else - friend's houses, other companies, wifi hotspots. |
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Thanks to our IT division I get lots of practice in finding interesting ways |
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into the corporate network. Depending on how I'm connected I start up all |
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manner of tunnels, socks proxies and various other bits. Doing this manually |
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is getting tedious. |
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So I'm looking for a reasonably reliable way of detecting what served my |
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current IP address so the post-start script in wicd can detect this and launch |
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all the correct things correctly. The actual address range and domain is not |
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the way to go - too many networks dish out 10.0.0.0/8 and example.com for that |
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to work well. |
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I have some ideas of my own, but figured I'd ask here as well. Odds are |
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excellent someone will have much better ideas than I. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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