Hi, * Rohan Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021128 09:18]: > > Netenv cannot deal with my adsl connection, so I would like to disable > it and make a script that calls dhcp (work) or calls my pptp script. > The problem is in init.d there is netenv, but I can find nothing in the > rcX.d dirs that is connected to networking, unless it is inetd, but I > always thought this was about starting the web server.
inetd is the tcpwrapers stuff, so yes, it _can_ be used for running a web server. > > I have looked at /etc/init.d/networking and it seems quite low level, so > it looks I should run this no matter what. I guess what I want to do is > cut in with my script before the dhcp stuff starts, so I can choose not > to use it, but after the network card is activated for the operating system. If this is the case I'm guessing you are using a pcmcia nic. Yes? If so the script you should be looking at is /etc/init.d/pcmcia and have a look at the files in /etc/pcmcia/, particularly /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. I don't know anything about pptp, (other than what came out of "apt-cache show pptp-linux") so I can't give you any hints there. What I can say is that I use my laptop with three different static IPs, two very different DHCP servers and with ppp over a modem. I found that the package "switchconf" handles changing the configurations like a champ. So: apt-cache show switchconf. HTH, Nick. -- Debian testing/unstable Linux onefish 2.4.19-lavienx #1 Sat Sep 21 19:58:12 EST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
