Tool for switching networks (WiFi and non) easily?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 07:54:49AM +0100, Ivo Marino wrote:

> I own an Apple iBook2 running Warty. The machine has two network
> devices: eth0, the builtin etherent and eth1, the Apple WiFi airport
> extension.
> 
> Fine, until now I've used guessnet to automagically adapt my system to
> each new network I join to with my iBook. Anyway this tool does not seem
> to work perfect on my Warty system -- I have to insert some other manual
> commands and restart /etc/init.d/network.
> 
> Due to this little annoying fact I would like to know which tools are
> you, community, using for switching networks easily and adapting
> automatically the system to the new network?
> 
> I heard there would be also some interesting GNOME tools beside
> text-based netenv, guessnet, etc.

We're integrating a tool called NetworkManager in Hoary.

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/NetworkManager

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 - mdz