Hi. I am currently setting up the gateway of my network to connect to the internet via a WLAN-based network. Previously I was using ISDN. My problem is, the Wireless net connection is not very reliable. What I would like to have is a mechanism to easily switch between wireless and ISDN as default gateway (for my network gateway, aka. "server"). This is not so trivial, because several changes have to be made: The default gateway has to be changed. The firewall rules have to be changed, so that the external interface is set to eth1 instead of ippp0. And, because that was not enough, I had to uninstall the ISDN subsystem. I haven't found out why, but until I did that, ippp0 was always used as the interface to dial out, and the default route was restored to it. Now I have thought of a crude method to switch between the two gateways: back up the files which are changed by YaST, when I make the necessary changes, and replace the config files in /etc with the ones which are currently needed. But as I said, I consider this very crude. Can anyone think of a better way? Let me briefly define "better": - It should preserve the system's integrity, - it should be done with SuSE's tools, - profiles must be switchable via a web interface (this should pose no problem, I can always write a wrapper) Thanks, Helge
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 12:08, Helge Preuss wrote:
Let me briefly define "better": - It should preserve the system's integrity, - it should be done with SuSE's tools, - profiles must be switchable via a web interface (this should pose no problem, I can always write a wrapper)
Have you had a look at Yast Profile Manager? I use it on my laptop to switch between wireless and hardwired "modes"
On 22.02.05,13:08, Helge Preuss wrote:
Hi.
I am currently setting up the gateway of my network to connect to the internet via a WLAN-based network. Previously I was using ISDN.
My problem is, the Wireless net connection is not very reliable. What I would like to have is a mechanism to easily switch between wireless and ISDN as default gateway (for my network gateway, aka. "server"). This is not so trivial, because several changes have to be made:
The default gateway has to be changed. The firewall rules have to be changed, so that the external interface is set to eth1 instead of ippp0. And, because that was not enough, I had to uninstall the ISDN subsystem. I haven't found out why, but until I did that, ippp0 was always used as the interface to dial out, and the default route was restored to it.
Now I have thought of a crude method to switch between the two gateways: back up the files which are changed by YaST, when I make the necessary changes, and replace the config files in /etc with the ones which are currently needed. But as I said, I consider this very crude. Can anyone think of a better way?
Let me briefly define "better": - It should preserve the system's integrity, - it should be done with SuSE's tools, - profiles must be switchable via a web interface (this should pose no problem, I can always write a wrapper)
Thanks,
Helge
You can try netapplet: http://support.novell.com/products/technicalpapers/tp10007.html - Jostein -- Jostein Berntsen <jbernts@broadpark.no>
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