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

[Jacob Mansfield]

surely the dhcp server on the work network can just be programmed to allways
give the lappy the same IP
Jacob Mansfield
Programmer



On 27 October 2010 16:57, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> Thanks yes  Different places/networks, not simultaneous.
>
>  I prefer to identify the LAN by the MAC address of the default
> gateway because there are so many 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.1.0 networks
> and "always up" systems on a LAN are not always up (!) and can change
> address whereas the default gateway is more likely to be up and its
> MAC address is less likely to change. It's not a very robust solution
> but I don't know of anything better and it has been "good enough" for
> a while.
>
> Design-wise, I was thinking along the lines of parallel processes to:
> Bring up eth0 as a DHCP interface.
> For each known static network: bring up eth0:x configured with static
> values and try to get the default gateway's MAC address to identify
> the network.
> Wait with a reasonable time to see if DHCP configures eth0 (abandon if
> the network is identified by any of the step 2 processes) and, if it
> does, identify the appropriate by the default gateway's MAC address.
> Remove useless/unwanted interfaces including the DHCP one even if it
> got a lease if it's for a network we have static settings for.
> At this point the network is identified as known or unknown and the
> script can, as appropriate, configure routing; configure DNS
> resolution; mount networked file systems; start services such as cups,
> NFS, samba, sshd ... .
>
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