Hi, Am Sonntag, 31. August 2003 06:02 schrieb Matt T.:
My notebook needs to get connected to the Internet via an ADSL router when I'm in the office. No problem, I just set up the default gateway to the router's IP and it works.
However when I travel I use an Internet dial up connection (kinternet or kppp). But that does not work when the default gateway is still set to the router's IP in the office.
So I have to take out the default gateway every time I use dial up connections, and reenter it when I use the router. And while I'm at it, it is probably a good idea to do the same for the DNS entries required by the ADSL connection.
That's exactly the kind of scenario where scpm comes into play: user@linux:~> rpm -qi scpm Name : scpm Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.9.1 Vendor: SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany Release : 25 Build Date: Mon Mar 17 18:00:17 2003 Install date: Fri Mar 21 19:40:41 2003 Build Host: Zert230.suse.de Group : System/Base Source RPM: scpm-0.9.1-25.src.rpm Size : 1758793 License: GPL Packager : http://www.suse.de/feedback Summary : System Configuration Profile Management Description : SCPM enables your system to save different configurations in profiles. You can boot directly into a profile as well as switch profiles at run time. It is the successor of scheme management. Have a look at the YaST2 profile manager. It's a frontend to scpm. scpm is also described in the green adminstration manual. Read this first befor you start using it. Greetings from Bremen hartmut