Hi, have a look at the list thread starting Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Subject:
Cancelling eth0 start. That,s exactly what you need.

Regards
Frank


On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 10:29, Daniel wrote:
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> > I have a laptop and I'm working and connecting at three different
> > places: at home with a ADSL connection, at workplace #1 through a DHCP
> > server and at workplace #2 through a fixed IP address. Is it possible to
> > create different connection scripts to automate the change from one
> > connection to another ?
> 
> 
> I got recommened (a while ago) to create a number of virtual runlevels. I
> 
> create 3 directories in /etc/runlevels as home, work1, work2 or whatever name 
> takes your fancy.
> 
> do a 
> #rc-update add dhcpd work1
> #rc-update add pptp home
> etc. I think you get the idea.
> 
> use the command line with
> #rc work1 
> to start the work1 stuff and your done.
> 
> If you use a script like /etc/init.d/net.eth0 more that once you probably need 
> to copy it can many locations and make each one a bit different.
> 
> Going off Williams suggestion you could alter /sbin/rc to read the 
> /proc/cmdline and run the appropriate runlevel (work1,home,work2 etc.).
> 
> I haven't done this but its pretty simple.
> 
> Gentoo rocks.
> 
> Daniel
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