NetworkManager?

[Anderson Lizardo]

On 9/18/06, Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 21:22 +0200, Soren Hansen wrote:
> > Any good ideas for how to discover if you're on certain network and
> > hence should use a static IP? Otherwise you'd have to tell it manually
> > and then the plug-your-laptop-in-anywhere-and-everything-works paradigm
> > is kind of lost.
>
> Some solutions have been available in Debian/Ubuntu for a long time.
> Specifically these two packages:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/net/whereami
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/net/laptop-netconf
>
> Personally, I'm glad DHCP has been configured to work everywhere I go,
> so network manager works (and works well) for my particular case.

I use whereami to automatically enable/disable proxy (using gconftool)
on networks that need it, but I wonder if there is some friendly
(read: GUI) way to automatically manage proxy profiles (I know of some
extensions for Firefox, but I wanted something more global, so I've
chosen to use whereami/gconftool).

Regards,
-- 
Anderson Lizardo