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From: stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Stephan Forth)
Subject: Re: Laptop on multiple networks and PPP
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Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 07:18:11 GMT
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Kent Boortz (kent@erlang.ericsson.se) wrote:
: 
: I have a laptop with a PCMCIA ethernet card running FreeBSD .  As an
: there a more "automatic" way? Maybe configure PPP to "take over" the
: IP number?
: 
: Now I move the machine to location 2 where I have a different static
: IP number, another DNS etc. How do I solve this? I just read that
: the same ethernet card can have multiple IP addresses using "ifconfig".
: Is this enough? Is routing a problem? Routing is still a bit of magic
: to me.

AFAIK, there is a utility called setnetparms. It allows you
to chooce an IP config out of a predefined list.
Should be on the FreeBSD ftp-sites. Sorry, I don't know the
exact location.

Regards, Stephan
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