On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 21:57, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 00:18, Peter Smith wrote: > I think there is way to configure different network profiles and then > select which one you want to use. Have not done this myself but I found > this which may get you going the right direction. > > http://www.linuxgazette.com/book/view/1754 (I'm replying this before I read the above link so, sorry if this is duplicated) This is how I do it when I switch from using a pcmcia network to a pcmcia wireless. Since my dell has only 1 slot, I need to configure it to various different settings. (since both wants to be called eth1) user $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt # for the documentation of these parameters. DEVICE=eth1 case `ifconfig eth1 | sed -ne 's/.*HWaddr *\([^ ]*\) */\1/p'` in 00:60:08:B1:1C:03) . eth-3com;; 00:09:5B:0E:0B:D1) . eth-netgear;; *) echo "Unknown MAC address. Please update ifcfg-eth1" esac [ -n "$USERDEVICENAME" ] && echo $DEVICE > /tmp/$USERDEVICENAME IPV6INIT=no ONBOOT=no USERCTL=yes PEERDNS=yes TYPE=Ethernet DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=dhcp user $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/eth-3com # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt # for the documentation of these parameters. USERDEVICENAME=eth-3com USERCTL=yes PEERDNS=yes ONBOOT=no #BOOTPROTO=none BOOTPROTO=dhcp TYPE=Ethernet #IPADDR=10.0.0.1 DEVICE=eth1 HWADDR=00:60:08:b1:1c:03 BOOTPROTO=none NETMASK=255.255.255 cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/eth-netgear # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt # for the documentation of these parameters. USERDEVICENAME=eth-netgear USERCTL=yes PEERDNS=yes GATEWAY= ONBOOT=no TYPE=Wireless DHCP_HOSTNAME= IPADDR= DEVICE=eth1 HWADDR=00:09:5b:0e:0b:d1 BOOTPROTO=dhcp DOMAIN= NETMASK= ESSID= CHANNEL=1 MODE=Managed KEY= RATE=2Mb/s -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 07:29:54 up 1:36, 6 users, load average: 1.65, 1.60, 1.82
