[NBLUG/talk] Profiles

[Mark Street]

Maybe this little tool will help you.  I heard of it sometime back from the 
other troy (Engel).  Definitely a scriptable solution though...  Even if it 
prompts you on boot for which profile to boot as part of the networking 
scripts.

QuickSwitch 1.02 (quickswitch.sourceforge.net)
Mohit Muthanna (www.muthanna.com)
Paul Seamons (www.seamons.com) (perl at seamons.com)

$Id: README,v 1.9 2003/01/23 16:03:53 muthanna Exp $

Introduction
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QuickSwitch is a little utility that lets linux/Unix laptop users create and
use roaming network profiles. Instead of individually reconfiguring the 
network
card, changing DNS entries, hosts files etc. it lets you create one 
centralized
file for all your different profiles. So if you keep moving around with your
laptop (like myself) and have to keep reconfiguring everything over and over
again; this might just make your life a wee bit easier. QuickSwitch also lets
you configure all your network settings over the command line (in one line),
including the default route and DNS addresses. This saves you the hassle
of going out and editing files one by one.


On Wednesday 30 July 2003 11:54, Warren Raquel wrote:
> I was wondering how I could set up my laptop so that I can just make
> different grub entries to set up my networking dependant on where I'm
> at. i.e. I set up a grub entry saying 'office' or one saying 'home' or
> one as 'wireless school', etc. I would guess I could set up a script to
> set up my networking but can I specify a shell variable or something of
> the like at the boot prompt that would pass to a script or that a script
> could read as a variable? Is there some easier way of doing this? TIA.

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