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On 9/20/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:35:09 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > I haven't tried using it for this, but I wonder if RC_USE_CONFIG_PROFILE |
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> > would help. See /etc/conf.d/rc for details but basically you set up |
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> > different configs for different runlevels, so you could have a different |
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> > runlevel for each situation, but make the actual runlevel directories |
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> > symlinks to default. Selecting the runlevel on rebooting would certainly |
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> > pick up the appropriate config, you'd have to try it to see what happens |
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> > when switching runlevels while running. |
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Have you checked out net-misc/netprofiles-ims? I haven't, but it looks |
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promising (it's only keyworded for x86 currently, dunno why, dunno |
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what platform you're running). |
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-James |
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> I've run a couple of tests now, using different /etc/conf.d/net.runlevel |
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> files. Switching runlevels on the fly doesn't cause the new configs to be |
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> loaded, but restarting the network afterwards does. I expect this is fine |
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> for your needs, as you are unlikely to have the network running while |
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> between locations. Even if you are, you only need to do |
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> rc newrunlevel |
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> /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart |
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> to switch over. The VPN and other stuff you need to run is easily handled |
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> in the postup() function of the relevant net.runlevel file. |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> If this were an actual tagline, it would be funny. |
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