The easiest way to handle portable devices is with DHCP and assigned addresses by MAC. That way you can provide reverse DNS as appropriate.
Jim Tarvid On Wednesday 22 January 2003 09:39 am, David Robertson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 21:44, Damon Lynch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Are the GUI network tools supposed to take care of all changes needed to > > connect through KPPP instead of through an already configured ethernet > > adapter? That is, change the default gateway, change shorewall > > configuration, and make sure that DNS is ok? And do all of this with > > the ethernet adapter still present? I recently had to change the way > > Mandrake connects to the Internet, from cable to regular modem. I tried > > the GUI tool without success, but was able to figure it out manually > > after a little research and changes in /etc/sysconfig/network > > > > If the network GUI tools are supposed to do this automatically (with the > > different profiles), then I suppose there is a bug in them. Or else it > > is a missing feature? Can someone replicate this in the 9.1 beta? > > > > Thanks, > > Damon > > I have to admit that I have always had problems with this. At home I > have adsl and at work a small, fixed-IP mixed lan, with dial-up internet > connection.Every time I move my laptop from one location to the other, I > have to set up the network connection from scratch.And even then I have > great difficulty in dialling out: it seems to connect OK according to > the log in kppp but nothing happens and my browser, for example, can't > access its home page.If I reconfigure the modem 2-3 times from scratch, > eventually it is OK, though the settings are always the same. Setting up > two profiles makes no difference. So at work I just set up the lan > manually then use wvdial for dialling out. > > David
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