Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Friday, 2008-12-26 at 11:10 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:
Jerry Houston wrote:
Someone undoubtedly has, but I gave up on network manager long ago, and switched to using ifup to start the connection, even on my laptops. It seems to be a lot faster and in my case, a lot more reliable.
Jerry -
I like the idea of using ifup on a laptop, but how do you do it?
I have my desktops set to using ifup because they have a static connection. However, my laptop goes from work to home and often visits other locations. I need it to connect to various wifi points - even in an airport.
does ifup allow this?
One possible method is using profiles.
You set up your machine to use profiles in yast, and when you go fromone location to another you swithc profile (on boot, in theory). What this does is, first save all the configuration files defined for the current profile somewhere, under the current profile, and then restore the configuration files for the new profile. These can be network files, but also things like postfix configuration and many things. It is very powerfull.
Maybe there is another method. Look, if you issue the command:
nimrodel:~ # rcnetwork Usage: /sbin/rcnetwork <action> [<config>] [<interface>] [-o <options>] actions: start|stop|status|reload|force-reload|try-restart restart|stop-all-dhcp-clients|restart-all-dhcp-clients options: [on]boot,hotplug,manual,check,debug,fake,nm,netcontrol type=<typelist>,skip=<skiplist> typelist: space seperated list of interface types skiplist: space seperated list of interfaces to skip for 'start' nimrodel:~ #
I'm interested in the word "config" above. Can we have different "configs"?
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