On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 08:28:33AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote: > I just got a new laptop, and because of the nature of it, I am on > different networks all the time with it. Some networks have DHCP > (well, most do) but a few do not. The few that dont all use the same > subnet (thankfully), so I was wondering if there is anything like what > XP has for configuring the IP address (ie- try DHCP if it fails > fallback to an alternate IP address). I know pump has some scripting > capabilities, is this possible? pump is being dropped even by Red Hat in favor of the ICS DHCP Client. Scripting comes with your particular distribution's flavor of network management. Debian uses a "map" scheme so that you can do exactly what you want, provided with it's ifupdown package. Check out the /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples directory for examples on how to set up mapping. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020506/9ea02bff/attachment.pgp