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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!207.172.3.52!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!pegasus.PFM-Mainz.de!forthdv.pfm-mainz.de!stephan From: stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Stephan Forth) Subject: Re: Laptop on multiple networks and PPP X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-color PL0] Lines: 22 Organization: Forth EDV Beratung+Schulung Message-ID: <E9HqyB.4qp@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> References: <d2vi54t5q9.fsf@erlang.ericsson.se> Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 07:18:11 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40083 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 -- FORTH EDV Beratung + Schulung stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de Martin-Luther-Str. 55 voice: +49 6131 581072 55131 Mainz, Germany fax: +49 6131 581073