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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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