How to configure PC for wired/static and wired/DHCP networks?

[Tom H]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 27, 2010 07:57 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote:
>>
>> I want my netbook to connect automatically to both the office
>> wired/static network and to the usual wired/DHCP networks.
>
> Not possible unless you have two interfaces. How is the software
> supposed to know when to load the office network and when not to?

If this is in different locations rather than simultaneous, ifupdown
provides ping-places.sh to be used in "/etc/network/interfaces" to
determine which configuration to use.