[ILUG] how to manage multiple nics, multiple networks on a laptop?

[Tomasz Z. Napierała]

Hi,

2006/3/14, kevin lyda <kevin at ie.suberic.net>:
>
> I have a laptop with one built-in wired nic (eth0).  I sometimes use a
> wireless pcmcia card (eth1) or a wireless usb dongle thingy (wlan0).
>
> What I'd like to be able to do is plug in an ethernet cable, or plug in
> eth1 or wlan0 and get my connection up.  The problem is that different
> networks have different configs.
>
> All the wired networks support dhcp.  But all have different printers


Some of the wireless networks require an essid and/or a wep key.  And
> once connected, I'd like to reconfigure the printers.



guessnet will do the trick. You can assing different scripts to different
networks.


I've apt-cache searched and found a number of these tools, and wonder
> which ones people might recommend.  I'm not that interested in a gui -
> I'd really like something to just do it's thing in the background.
>
> The one that looks the most intriguing is ifplugd and waproamd


waproamd is unmaintained. Use wpasupplicant instead.


Has anyone dealt with this problem and what did you use?  If not, does
> anyone have this problem and would they be interested in any solution I
> find?


I use trio ifplugd + wpasupplicatn + guessnet on both Debian and (K)Ubuntu
boxes. Works great except dhcp - it's sometimes unable to aquire network
address.


Kevin

Regards,
--
Tom Z. Napierala