networked laptop

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

On Sun, 30 May 1999, Leslie Owen Everett wrote:

> My question: Is it feasible to manage the following at the same time on my
> notebook?
> 
> 1. Ethernet LAN at home with Compaq notebook as server to Macintosh and
> NeXT computers.
> 2. Current connections from notebook to commercial ISP's via modem for
> Internet connections.
> 3. Current connection from notebook to DHCP via ethernet at my job.

Yes, this is feasible; I do something similar with my laptop.

For the Ethernet, I have configurations for my home network, several
subnets at MIT, and my network at work. I've been doing this for several
years under Redhat by hand, by making a separate ifcfg-eth0 file for each
location, and making the "real" file a symlink to the appropriate one
(ifcfg-eth0 is in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts). I use DHCP on the
network at work and static addresses for home and MIT.

I also maintain all the necessary namservers in /etc/resolv.conf,
commented out, and uncomment the appropriate ones as necessary. 

I suspect linuxconf has a simpler way to do all this.

There are a lot of GUI front-ends for PPP, and I assume they all work
fairly well. I've been using Christoph's xplink, available at

    http://www.linuxsoup.com/docs/xplink.html

which does a good job of supporting multiple ISPs.

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