ifconfig idea

[Matt Palmer]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:09:21AM +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> Would it be difficult to build a script that when your do an
> ifconfig $ifnum up
> that it checks to see if the machine is setup to be static or DCHP and
> if it's set to DHCP then it will automatically to a
> dhclient $ifnum
> ?
> This would be useful for my laptop and some of the network hopping I
> do sometimes.

It's called ifup.  Less typing that ifconfig even.  Just run

ifup $ifnum

And it'll do exactly what you're asking for.

- Matt
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