Thanks Ben

I'm running it on Gnome as I don't like KDE so I'll take a look at the
network manager and see how I get on.

Stu

On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 09:19 +0100, Ben Hayes wrote:
> Stu
> 
> On Gnome, you have the ability to control the networks via a program
> called Network Manager.  However, under SuSE (and KDE) I am unsure of
> what's required.  I've never like YAST as it tends to break things (even
> when you do not make changes to things).  But using the Network Manager
> application allows you to manage multiple nics with multiple networks -
> quite similar to Windows.  I'll see if I can find an equivalent for KDE
> shortly.
> 
> Ben 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stuart Bird
> Sent: 23 May 2007 08:54
> To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts
> Subject: Re: [Peterboro] Multiple Gateways
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> > > Why not just set both interfaces to be dhcp and run a dhcpd at home 
> > > then all the IPs and gateways will be changed for you whenever the 
> > > interface comes up.
> 
> Sorry, should have explained better.
> 
> The work domain is protected by a smoothwall and we use the built in web
> proxy (squid) to restrict certain machines from accessing the Internet.
> Therefore only certain specified IP addresses in the range are allowed
> outbound access. All machines are on static IP addresses.
> We also run a DNS server on an internal address.
> 
> At home I do use DHCP but it doesn't seem to update the default gateway
> nor the DNS addresses. Which I currently have to do manually every time
> I change location.
> 
> Like I say, not a huge problem, just a bit of an irritant. I was just
> curious if the system could be set up to respond to the two different
> network setting, either within Suse, or using a third party application.
> 
> Stu
> 
> 
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