Please excuse me for reply to this message. I know that this isn't a help forum but I cannot stop myself from asking...
How do you trigger process of checking the subnet we've moved on? Hasan Ceylan Casey Harkins wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 12:43 +0100, The Holy ettlz wrote: >> On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 14:36 +0300, Tambet Ingo wrote: >> > This can (and should) be done easily with dispatcher scripts. There's >> > a lot of things that might need to be changed depending on location >> > (things like printers, browser proxies, SMTP server, firewall, ...) >> >> I've been thinking about this recently --- is there an established, >> medium-neutral way of securely identifying a network? I was thinking of >> doing something like adding an extra option to DHCP that gave clients a >> HTTPS URL which they could use to identify and authenticate a network >> (triggered by an NMD hook), and then configure themselves according to a >> local database. >> >> James > > > The approach we've taken is to use separate private subnets for various > networks, avoiding the commonly used ones (192.168.0.0/24, > 192.168.1.0/24, 192.168.100.0/24). From this we can deduce which subnet > we are on (never hit an airport/hotel/coffee shop that uses any of our > subnets). One of the things we do with this (which gets back to the > original poster's idea) is to automatically add/remove printers based on > the subnet using a dispatcher script. Our script even pops up a > libnotify message letting you know when printers were added/removed and > which one it set as the system default. As we add new printers at > various offices, we just drop a ppd file and simple config file into our > package, push out an updated rpm, and all machines will support the new > printer if they are connected to that subnet. I can think of better ways > to handle this, but this is a simple low-tech solution that has worked > well for a few years now. > > > -casey > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/An-Idea-tp18954271p18988268.html Sent from the Gnome - NetworkManager mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
