On Tuesday 11 January 2005 07:06, Andrew McMillan wrote: > > I, for one, would certainly love to see it cleaned up. I am the author > of whereami, so naturally I use that myself, but some people do find it > a bit arcane, or overkill.
A fine tool it is, but I do find it overkill. > > One basic rule that I think does work is that where there is a LAN then > don't test for any sort of a WLAN, even if it is an unrecognised one. > This kind of approach goes against the grain for a non-laptop > configuration however, where people generally want to use all available > interfaces at the same time. I think this dichotomy is what makes it > harder to fit laptop usage within the ifup/down framework without some > sort of manual work. Really? For those of us without WLAN, I would think ifup/ifdown works great. It's certainly all _I_ need. -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
