On Mar 23 14:10:58, [email protected] wrote:
> I have a laptop in which I use ifstated to determine whether it is "at
> home" or whether it is "roaming", and bring up the VPN -- used to be
> iked, now its wg -- for unwind and some NFS shares, if it is.
> 
> My question is: how would you detect if the machine it's "at home"? 

You know if you are at home.

So start up the VPN by hand if you are roaming.


> My present setup is a combination of checking the BSSID of the AP if it
> is connected to one, and some MAC addresses of other machines on the
> network.  I can think of a couple other ways (SSH host keys, external IP
> -- though it might change --, DHCP-assigned domain, etc).  Is there an
> easier way I'm not thinking of?  How would you do it?
> 
> Note that this doesn't have 100% fail proof nor am I worried about
> covering absolutely all corner cases, or paranoid about someone spoofing
> my network's BSSID, MAC addresses, etc, etc, just to prevent me from
> setting up a VPN.  This is just for convenience.
> 
> Cheers and TIA
> Zé
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