Re: /etc/netstart diff

2012-02-20 Thread Markus
On Fri, 17 14:18 , Stuart Henderson wrote: I only see this as being marginally useful as-is. Why would you want to configure every network interface individually? You might as well just use a separate script in that case. The use case is to have a default configuration of a wireless

Re: /etc/netstart diff

2012-02-20 Thread Brett
Apart from that, there's a number of places where a different wifi configuration is necessary, call them /etc/hostname.athn0.apX. Being at one of these places, typing sh /etc/netstart athn0.apX suffices to have a working setup. Another way is to have a different command for each place

Re: /etc/netstart diff

2012-02-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-02-16, Markus li...@neuronenwerk.de wrote: On Thu, 16 16:53 , Jan Stary wrote: What's the advantage over symlinking /etc/hostname.athn0 appropriately, if you want to use netstart? It's easier to issue a sh /etc/netstart athn0.home on the commandline than unlinking and

/etc/netstart diff

2012-02-16 Thread Markus
Hi list, occasionally I'm in the situation where having multiple configurations for a single network interface are handy to have. Admittedly, this doesn't affect servers as much as notebooks, where using severals wifi nets/logins is the average case. Most seamlessly, this could be handled by

Re: /etc/netstart diff

2012-02-16 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:49:03AM +0100, Markus wrote: occasionally I'm in the situation where having multiple configurations for a single network interface are handy to have. Most seamlessly, [multiple wifi networks] could be handled by using an arbitrary extension to the hostname.if files,

Re: /etc/netstart diff

2012-02-16 Thread Markus
On Thu, 16 13:03 , Joachim Schipper wrote: I'm sorry, but how does this work? It reads as if netstart now recognizes /etc/hostname.athn0.home as an alternative to /etc/hostname.athn0, but how does it figure out whether to use /etc/hostname.athn0.home or /etc/hostname.athn0.work? The idea

Re: /etc/netstart diff

2012-02-16 Thread Jan Stary
On Feb 16 15:16:51, Markus wrote: On Thu, 16 13:03 , Joachim Schipper wrote: I'm sorry, but how does this work? It reads as if netstart now recognizes /etc/hostname.athn0.home as an alternative to /etc/hostname.athn0, but how does it figure out whether to use /etc/hostname.athn0.home

Re: /etc/netstart diff

2012-02-16 Thread Markus
On Thu, 16 16:53 , Jan Stary wrote: What's the advantage over symlinking /etc/hostname.athn0 appropriately, if you want to use netstart? It's easier to issue a sh /etc/netstart athn0.home on the commandline than unlinking and relinking files before calling netstart. So, you