Andy Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AB> If you don't have enough options already, you can try the ifup/ifdown AB> stuff that comes with debian. Do a "man interfaces" to find out about AB> how to set up the mappings for multiple configurations of a single AB> interface
I was looking at that, and am leaning towards doing something that way myself anyways (in spite of other packages providing possibly useful wrappers). But interfaces(5) basically says, "yeah, there's this mapping script you can write" but doesn't say what it should do, really. Looking at the examples gives some possibly useful context. What I might try doing is writing up something to either (a) force the wireless card to try a specific ESSID and see if there's signal, or (b) force an arp query for known machines on local networks (these seeming to be the predominant ways the wrapper packages figure out where in the world they are). Then hopefully the implementation will come down to one fairly short script, plus some pre-existing support in ifupdown. It'd be nice if that worked well. Will report... -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
