On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 08:21:57AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > * Package name : guessnet > > Version : 0.9 > > Upstream Author : Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * URL : http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zinie/en/guessnet > > * License : GPL > > Description : Guess what network is connected to an ethernet device > > (can be used as a "script" for ifupdown) > > > > Based on the network detecting code of laptop-netconf, guessnet tries > > to guess what network an ethernet device is currently connected to, > > using fake ARP requests. > > > > It has been written to be coupled with the debian ifupdown package to > > achieve > > automatic network detection and configuration, but it can be used > > stand-alone > > to implement smart network scripts. > > You realize we already have THREE (maybe four) different packages which do > this > in Debian right now.
Of course I do, but this is the only one that integrates with the existing Debian network configuration. You have a way in /etc/network/interfaces to specify different configurations for a network interface, and to use an external command to choose the right one. Then you have THREE (maybe four) packages with a wonderful network detection routine, but NONE OF THEM can be used as that external command. For this reason, having a laptop and wanting to stay as close to the debian way as possible, I've just insulated their detection code and put it in a simple and small command that does the job, following the Unix tradition of doing things. Given guessnet, you could reimplement all the other similar packages with simple shell scripts (it could be an interesting idea for an examples directory, now that I think about it), but it would be a mess to use the other packages to provide a shell script that does for ifupdown what guessnet does. Bye, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
