On Monday 06 May 2002 08:28 am, you wrote:
> I just got a new laptop, and because of the nature of it, I am on different
> networks all the time with it. Some networks have DHCP (well, most do) but
> a few do not. The few that dont all use the same subnet (thankfully), so I
> was wondering if there is anything like what XP has for configuring the IP
> address (ie- try DHCP if it fails fallback to an alternate IP address). I
> know pump has some scripting capabilities, is this possible?
>
> Jay
>

The obvious way is to add a secondary, "Virtual IP" address, to the NIC.   
Easy to do with webmin, although I'm sure it can be done by hand, too.