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Re: Defining and choosing profiles

From: Martin Steigerwald <Martin(at)lichtvoll.de>
Date: Sun Dec 02 2007 - 03:56:23 EST

Hello,

Am Montag 19 November 2007 schrieb Hendrik Sattler:
> Am Montag 19 November 2007 schrieb Michael Schuerig:
> > To make thinks more concrete. When I'm working on a project at home
> > and at a client site, I easily get network access by means of DHCP in
> > both places. But at home I need no proxies, rely on the firewall in
> > my router and there are no network filesystems I need to mount. When
> > at the client site, I have to configure proxy settings for KDE,
> > Firefox, Subversion (Subclipse), and I want my own local firewall.
>
> Combine it with e.g. switchconf or netenv.

Or guessnet for automatic switching based on definable tests[1].

I use it to send ARP requests to check for a specified combination of IP and MAC address in the net. If it finds it, it configures the network according to my entry in /etc/network/interfaces. So my laptop uses a static IP at home but does DHCP in the company as well every location that it doesn't detect specifically.

It integrates nicely with /etc/network/interfaces. I combine it with ifplugd and wpasupplicant.

I didn't yet use it to automatically set a web proxy, but there is an example including a web proxy set script that might work[2].

Besides that Martin Krafft is designing and developing a new network configuration solution for Debian. But it still seems in the early concept phase.

Do you need help?

Networkmanager would work too, if you could integrate some scripts with it. Last time I looked it was still to unlexible for me and I thought it would only connect me to the net when the GUI is loaded. My guessnet / ifupdown solution works all the time, but doesn't give me much oppurtunatley for manual selections. So if you want to select one of several WLANs on a occasional basis if might not be suitable for you. If its always the same WLAN you want to connect at a certain place, then you could use wpasupplicant as a mapper and guessnet for IP config.

Since you can start scripts via /e/n/i you could do basically anything, but it needs a bit of time to setup correctly. It should be possible to integrate switchconf as well.

I wrote an article about guessnet but its also in german only.

[1] http://guessnet.alioth.debian.org/
see also man interfaces

[2] In german only:
http://blog.zugschlus.de/archives/22-DPotW-guessnet-ifupdown.html

[3] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/netconf-devel

[4]
http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2005/07/046-ifplugd/index.html?print=y

Ciao,

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