On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 17:24, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > >> Le mar 12/10/2004 à 13:32, Timothy Murphy a écrit : > >>> I'm looking for a program to run on my laptop > >>> which will set up network connections properly > >>> according to whether I am at home or at work. > > >> Look in the menu : System Parameters -> Network. > >> > >> It allows you to create different profiles and to (de)activate different > >> interfaces and parameters (DNS, route...) according each profile. > >> > >> The "user" side of this tool is "Network Connection Control" in the > >> System Tools menu that allows user to (de)activate interfaces (if you > >> allow users to activate these interfaces). > > > > Thanks for pointing this out to me. > > It looks as though it is exactly what I want - > > but unfortunately I found it more or less unusable. > > I must apologise - I didn't read the info you get > by clicking on the Help tab in Start=>System Settings=>Network . > (I mistakenly thought the Help file was empty.) > > I am still slightly puzzled by these two programs - > Start=>System Settings=>Network > and Start=>Stytem Tools=>Network Device Control - > they seem to overlap in a bizarre way, > eg you can change the Profile in either program, > you can change the IP addresses in each, > but you can only change to DHCP in the second > (whereas it would be more logical, it seems to me, > for this to be in System Settings). > it is. > There also appears a bug in the programs, > or else I misunderstand its functioning. > I have two logical devices, WiFi and TCD, > both associated to the physical device eth0. > I have two Profiles, the Common or default Profile always present > and a second Profile called TCD. > I want to turn on the TCD logical device in the TCD Profile, > and the WiFi logical device in the Common Profile, > but this appears to be impossible - > if the WiFi device is turned off in the TCD Profile > then it is automatically turned off in the Common Profile. > > > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
