Since you are dealing with TCP/IP over Ehternet, why not just use DHCP
everywhere? DHCP should be able to set most things, like IP address, net
mask, default gateway, DNS server addresses, etc. If there are other
things you want to set, you could add code to the startup script like
Manuel said.

On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Manuel Bouyer whote:
> Well, you have to hack /etc/rc.d/network for this.

The trick is finding something that will be unique to each network, like
the network number (first few octets of the IP address) and using it in
an if statement.

On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Richard Rauch wrote:
> The basic problem: I have multiple configurations and presently have to
> hand-munge some stuff via sudo or as root.  What I'd like is something
> automatic, even if it's as yucky as polling for different possible working
> configurations.  Given that there is nothing constant about these
> configurations except that they use TCP/IP over ethernet, is there a nice
> way to do this?

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