[Smaug] [cerise@armory.com: Re: Ubuntu/Debian networking setup on laptop]

[Peter Belew]

Hi -

On 11/20/05, cerise at armory.com <cerise at armory.com> wrote:
> If I recall correctly, waproamd and ifplugd were made for precisely
> this reason.

 Looks like waproamd just arrived in Ubuntu with the breezy release.
 And ifplugd has been there for a while. Looks like a good start.

 There's the issue of getting configsys to work with that - since I have
 that DNS server for my LAN, I want it to work when connected on
 the LAN.

 Thanks, Phil!
  Peter
>
> ifplugd detects when it has a network connection (wired or wireless contact
> with an AP).  waproamd will keep track of keys and switch you to the best
> received wireless AP.
>
> For DHCP (at least in the case of udhcpd), you can set up static mappings
> of MAC addresses & hostnames to ip addresses, which would work for your
> setup at home.
>
> So, run DHCP on all interfaces and it ought to detect when a plug goes in
> your wireless card or when you can smell out an AP.
>
> -Phil/CERisE
>
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 09:04:44PM -0800, Peter Belew wrote:
> > I have my laptop (with Ubuntu installed) set up so it works ok
> > wireless and wired (ra0 and eth0 interfaces respectively), but
> > have to manually change /etc/network/interfaces when moving
> > from using at home to using at school or at a friend's place.
> >
> > At home I use fixed addresses, and have a WEP key for
> > the wireless. I have an internal DNS server on my LAN for
> > LAN addresses.
> >
> > Elsewhere I access unencoded access points wireless, and
> > an Ethernet port with DHCP.
> >
> > I'd like to be able to set up this on /etc/network/interfaces to
> > make it easy to select what I want manually, without entering
> > all the parameters manually. Ubuntu has a GUI tool for
> > configuring - 'network-admin' but I'm not sure if that can be
> > set up to allow menu selection of the choices I want.
> >
> > I do have the 'resolvconf' package installed, which should
> > help with changing /etc/resolv.conf appropriately when changing
> > primary interfaces.
> >
> > Does anyone have experience with this?
> >
> >  - Peter
> >
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