Re: laptop netconfig

1999-05-25 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 07:25:23PM -0500, Justin Hagemeier wrote: > > Well I sort of do this already I have a laptop that has the Potato distro > > on it, I use both ethernet and ppp, > > I am using the DHCP client in potato and it works great; if there is no > > ethernet connection, then no IP i

Re: laptop netconfig

1999-05-25 Thread Justin Hagemeier
> Well I sort of do this allready I have a laptop that has the Potato distro on > it, I use both ethernet and ppp, > I am using the DHCP client in potato and it works great; if there is no > ethernet connection, then no IP is assigned > to the eth0 interface, essentially no route. I just use PPP

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Re: laptop netconfig

1999-05-24 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 02:07:19PM -0500, 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

Re: laptop netconfig

1999-05-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Since the ethernet driver will detect carrier on the ethernet if you could detect the error correctly you'd be able to know if the ethernet was hooked up. Trying to send a packet is easy. Trapping the error correctly may be the hard part. If the kernel would log such a message then you could jus

Re: laptop netconfig

1999-05-24 Thread Justin Hagemeier
"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 d

Re: laptop netconfig

1999-05-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
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, Just

laptop netconfig

1999-05-24 Thread Justin Hagemeier
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 in