On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 04:40:55PM -0400, Paul McDermott wrote: > hello everybody, i have a question, who doesn't on this list right? ok > here it goes. I have a computer at work connected to the net via > eathernet. I have all of my networking working great. My question is > when i bring it home what do i have to change? hostname and ip address > comes to mind since at work i have my own. i know it has to be something > like 192.168.xxx.xxx is right or some variation. I was also wondering > about my gateway and resolv.conf in /etc. The computer i am going to take > home is going to be connected to the internet by modem (not all the time > but sometimes) I don't want to know specifically what to change ie > numbers bit what files to change. I have the howto's at my home page but > i did not see to much on this subject. I am going to use diald. i don't > have to worry about connecting to my computer through the modem - just so > i can get out. Any help or directions would be much appreciated. > If you need more information to help my conversion, please don't hesitate > to ask and i shall provide.
I was on an ethernet at my school, everthing working fine, etc, just as you described. My school used "dhcp" to assign IP addresses... but they were always the same, and I let my computer run 24/7, so my IP was always the same. I used bootp (bootpc) for linux to setup everything. Anyway, when I brought my computer home, to use PPP via modem on occation, I just commented out anything dealing with the ethernet and/or bootpc in my startup scripts. Then I setup the pon and /etc/ppp* files, and it's all rock'n'roll now. I never changed my hostname, so the From: field of my emails and newsgroup postings always look like they came from my computer when it was still on the ethernet. I just set "Reply-To: " to the correct value, and I'm set. Cheap, lazy... but effective! hopefully somebody will post a more elegant solution <grin> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
