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----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
