I recently got a laptop which uses a combo pcmcia card for connectivity. This means that I do not have eth0 or ppp0 active all the time. With ppp on my desktop machine, I know I can put commands to be executed when the ppp interface comes up in /etc/ppp/ip-up.local, and turn them off in /etc/ppp/ip-down.local. I want to make sure portsentry and my ipchains rules start up when I plug into a network. since I am using this laptop as a road-warrior machine at differrent client sites, I use pump as a dhcp client to get my ip address, so I cannot depend on having the same (ip address, default gateway, etc. etc.) assigned all the time and so cannot set these services up at boot time. Where do I put commands that I want activated when my eth0 interface comes up under pcmcia control? What about deactivating these commands when I take the interface down? I have everything setup in scripts, and even have them customized so they can be called for eth0 or ppp0 as the case may be, but I just need to know where to put them. Any pointers or FAQ's welcome. -- Tom Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
