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If I set the NIC to DHCP as you advise, you are implying that gentoo |
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will handle the various fixed IP's, subnets, gateways and differing vpn |
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schemes automaticly? How can it do that? Only some of the networks |
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(only three in fact) use DHCP. |
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ifplugd looks interesting - possibly the best I can do will be to use |
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ifplugd to trigger if-up and if-up will have to contain the various add |
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ons like the vpns and service restarting with functions to detect which |
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to run where. No relief from the nightmare I am afraid ... |
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BillK |
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On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 01:05 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:58:11 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: |
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> > Also, is there an integrated way to plug in a network cable and have a |
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> > config RELIABLY recognised and trigger the necessary actions? Its not a |
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> > good look to arrive at lecture in front of 30-50 people and struggle to |
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> > connect to the local network, which seems par for the course for gentoo! |
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> emerge ifplugd, but don't try to configure it, Gentoo's networking |
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> scripts handle that automatically. |
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> Set your wired interface to use DHCP and it should set itself up |
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> automatically. If you want something else done when connecting or |
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> disconnecting the cable, such as shutting down wireless or restarting |
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> services, look at the preup/postup/predown/postdown functions |
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> in /etc/conf.d/net.example. |
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