Richard,

Assuming for a minute that you setup a DHCP server at home (it's not that
hard). If your laptop attempts to configure with DHCP, it would succeed
everywhere except when you are connected to the ``math'' network. It might
be possible, from a script run at the end of the boot process, to detect
this fact (failure to contact the DHCP server) and reconfigure. Can
someone say if this is possible?

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Richard Rauch wrote:
> What I was talking about reconfiguring is the network interface and
> routing.  At home, it resides in a private network.  In my office, it
> connects to the Rice ``math'' network.  Elsewhere on campus, I believe
> that I can jack it in and use DHCP to connect to one or more other
> networks.  (That last hasn't come up, yet.  But, it may someday.)

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