r-c-n sux?

[Gavin Hemphill]

neat (the underlying stuff for r-c-n) works fine but you really have to 
change your paradigm from location manager :-)  If you have played with 
the config files by had as I had then yes all the devices are screwed 
up.  By reading the documentation and fixing the files in 
/etc/sysconfig/network you can set up rapid switching between network 
connections.  This is NOT location manager and suffers some drawbacks in 
what files are affected but it works fine for me for switching between 3 
fixed addresses and 3 different dhcp configurations.
	G++

Stefan Jeglinski wrote:

> In the past, I've always set up my networking by hand (iBook G3/800 with 
> airport). But for some testing, I need to have a large number of 
> different types of network configs that I want to switch between 
> rapidly. For example, airport via dhcp, airport via manual, ethernet via 
> dhcp, ethernet via manual, airport and ethernet together, different host 
> names, getting dns via a dhcp server, or assigning dns servers manually, 
> the list goes on.
> 
> I tried redhat-config-network for the first time today and boy does 
> anyone else think it really sucks? First, it thinks that airport is 
> ethernet and sungem is wireless, and I can't seem to make it think 
> otherwise, even after deleting everything and starting over. Once I 
> figured out what was going on there, I could not get it to create 
> different profiles that were not polluted by other profiles. And, 
> sometimes it would tell me I needed to restart the network even though I 
> had not changed profiles, and vice versa. I just don't like it because I 
> can't seem to tame it. I have the latest version from the YDL 
> repositories via yum.
> 
> Is there any good "location manager" (in Mac speak) for Linux out there? 
> (A quick search on fresh meat found none, or maybe it was a bad keyword 
> search). Lacking that, what strategies or scripts would people like to 
> share that yield quick and easy control over the 2 interfaces to the 
> network?
> 
> 
> Stefan Jeglinski
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