"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > I don't know if anyone's come up with a slick way to do this. I too would > like to have such a thing at my disposal. You might be able to do something > like this by just running dhcp and then checking to see if dhcp succeeded in > getting an address and starting diald if it didn't. > > Good luck, > > Justin Hagemeier wrote: > > > I have a laptop with three possible network configurations that I would > > like to use. > > 1. Ethernet 10 Mbps DHCP-sv > > 2. PPP daild > > 3. None at all > > is there any suggestions on tools for configuration techniques for this > > kind of setup. It looks as if I could do it if one of the init.d scripts > > sniffed out the PCMCIA to see if there where activity, then if there was > > not it would start daild instead of DHCP. I have no idea where to begin on > > such a thing though. Any thoughts? > > Thanks in advance, > > Justin > > -- > Jens B. Jorgensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Would anybody like give some input on developing this? I was thinking about using ifconfig in a script to temporarily configure the networks so that it might "feel" for a network pulse over the ether net. If no pulse is felt then it will start daild, otherwise it would start dhcpcd, then make a script called net-switch that would allow you to stop dhcpcd and start daild on the fly or vice-verse. The problem with accomplishing the net selection with DHCP is that the boot script will just hang if it can't find an address, and I have never been patient enough to wait for it to time out(if it does at all). I asked if anyone had done it because I did not want to go around re-inventing the wheel. Tell me what you all think. Regards, haggs
