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

[Christopher Chan]

On Wednesday, October 27, 2010 09:11 PM, Tom H wrote:
> 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.
>

Hmm...one wonders whether making another alias to use on the other 
subnet for simultaneous connections to two subnets would be fun to automate.

This is getting way out of end user range.