On Saturday 24 July 2004 11:16 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
->One other thing to think about. If you usually know if you want network
->access when you boot, and you do not often change your network status
->after booting, set up two net profiles. One with network enabled, and
->one with it disabled. then set up two entries in lilo, one for each net
->profile. You can then select witch one to boot into. (You add
->PROFILE=<profile name> in the append section for each boot entry.) The
->nice thing about Netprofiles is that you can define what services start,
->what interfaces are defined, separate host and resolv.conf files for
->each one, etc. You can change profiles without rebooting, and it will
->start/stop services as necessary to match the new profile. (It is a lot
->like changing run levels, but it does even more!)
->
->I have several profiles set up on my laptop. One for wireless, one for
->Ethernet with static IP, one for Ethernet with DHCP, and one for
->dialup. There are firewall differences, as well as different services,
->host files, resolv.conf, etc for each profile. Modem and Static IP
->connect to the Internet the same way, but Static IP has more services
->running.
->
->Mikkel
Thats very cool - thanks for the heads up Mikkel! :-)
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