Not at my linux box now but can't you save named configurations in network manager and switch between them?
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Bryce Stenberg<[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks everyone for your help. > I now know a lot more about linux networking and the various commands > and files that control it. > > However, I still didn't make an alternate configuration work :( > I'll just leave that now to try again with a later version maybe... at > least I can still type the manual configuration when I have to. > > Regards, > Bryce Stenberg > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: steve [mailto:[email protected]] >>Sent: Thursday, 20 August 2009 4:33 p.m. >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate > configuration' >>setting? >> >>On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 16:14 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote: >>> Thanks for previous tips and linux commands. >>> >>> I'm slowly getting somewhere now. >>> However, it turns out that each time I get the 'lease' section not > quite >>> what it wants in the dhclient.conf file the NetworkManager entries in >>> syslog indicate it is disabling the device 'eth0': "hrnzlx02 >>> NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): deactivating device (reason: 40)." >>> >>> After that I can't keep trying until I reboot pc to reactivate the >>> device. >>> >>> So, is there command to activate a device once it has been >>> 'deactivated'? >>> Restarting dhcp client is not sufficient. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Bryce Stenberg >>man ifconfig >> >>is the most generic answer I can give >> >>(as in ifcfg eth0 up) >> >>-- >>Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> >>http://www.greengecko.co.nz >>MSN: [email protected] >>GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0 > > > > DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us > immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 > 9641200 and destroy the original. Please refer to full DISCLAIMER at > http://www.hrnz.co.nz/eDisclaimer.htm > > > > > >
