Re: Detecting network profiles using mac address of default gateway
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 11:44 +0100, Giles Westwood wrote: Hi list, Apologies if this has been asked before, I did try searching first and couldn't find anything. I was going to hack something myself but I'd rather use the network manager instead if it's possible. I'm wanting to set a list of custom search domains at home and at the office so I'm using address only dhcp and setting dns servers and search domains manually in two different profiles. I'd rather that the network manager could get my dhcp lease, and use the mac address of the default gateway to determine what my location is, then select the correct network profile. Any pointers on how to do this much appreciated otherwise I'll be running a cron job and hacking things manually. This sort of thing isn't implemented at this time; but we've discussed it a lot before. It would be an opt-in sort of thing, certainly not on by default, because it risks spamming the network quite heavily. While it would probably be done slightly differently than you suggest, I think the outcome would be the same. Somebody needs to come up with a suggested strawman implementation that we can beat about though. Note that for 802.1x, we apparently *can* autodetect what connection to use because there are some frames the switch transmits that we can pick up on. We'd still need arping or something for non-802.1X ethernet though. Dan ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Detecting network profiles using mac address of default gateway
Hi list, Apologies if this has been asked before, I did try searching first and couldn't find anything. I was going to hack something myself but I'd rather use the network manager instead if it's possible. I'm wanting to set a list of custom search domains at home and at the office so I'm using address only dhcp and setting dns servers and search domains manually in two different profiles. I'd rather that the network manager could get my dhcp lease, and use the mac address of the default gateway to determine what my location is, then select the correct network profile. Any pointers on how to do this much appreciated otherwise I'll be running a cron job and hacking things manually. Thanks, g. -- -- Giles Westwood ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Detecting network profiles using mac address of default gateway
Hi list, Apologies if this has been asked before, I did try searching first and couldn't find anything. I was going to hack something myself but I'd rather use the network manager instead if it's possible. I'm wanting to set a list of custom search domains at home and at the office so I'm using address only dhcp and setting dns servers and search domains manually in two different profiles. I'd rather that the network manager could get my dhcp lease, and use the mac address of the default gateway to determine what my location is, then select the correct network profile. Any pointers on how to do this much appreciated otherwise I'll be running a cron job and hacking things manually. Thanks, g. -- -- Giles Westwood ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
