Hi all- A while ago, I asked how to configure the ethernet interfaces on a laptop such that if the system was docked in its ether-enabled station, it should config that interface and ignore any PCMCIA ethernet. But if out of its dock, it should check for the PCMCIA ethercard and use DHCP to bring it up. The ifupdown suite seemed, at first glance, to be insufficient, primarily because it uses the interfaces configuration individually for each interface and thus the interface mapping is not passed any broader context information.
Yesterday, I finally attempted to tackle this thing and I have documented the solution at: http://www.orthogony.com/gjw/lap/lap-ether-intro.html It's also a tutorialish treatment of the ifupdown suite. Peace, -=greg
