[ltp] Dial Up, Dsl, & Wifi Connection

[Cougar]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, James Knott wrote:

> Eben King wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Stefan Kreisberg wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > Tirsdag den 14. december 2004 21:45 skrev James Knott:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > SOTL wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Any way to configure the system or a profile such that Linux
> > > > > acts like
> > > > > that !@#$% called Microsoft does. That is where you connect to
> > > > > any one of
> > > > > the three DSL, WiFi, or modem without switching profiles.
> > > > 
> > > > I wrote a pair of scripts, that shut down ethernet and start wifi,
> > > > as
> > > > well as the reverse.  I also have another pair, that do the same
> > > > for dial
> > > > up
> > 
> > 
> > > I for one wouldn't complain if you'd post them here :-D
> > 
> > 
> > But I don't see why you'd have to take down the interface of the one you
> > don't want, instead of setting the one you want as the default gateway.
> > 
> 
> I suppose I could have, but it just seemed simpler, to turn off any unused
> interfaces.

And why is this better than scpm where you just have to start
'scpm switch newprofile' and you are done. If there are different network 
configs in different profiles then it does 'rcnetwork stop' with old one 
and 'rcnetwork start' with new profile.

Good thing is that you can choose right profile during boot time, ie you 
don't need to log in as root to configure your network when booting system 
up. Also, if you choose the right configuration and network goes up, you 
don't need to wait for dhcp requests or any other task that is not 
necessary in this time.

It is ok to use scripts of course but why to do that if you can do it in 
"standard" way or even better :-)

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Cougar