On Wednesday 16 April 2003 11:39 pm, Mike Hicks wrote: > On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 12:03, Jay Kline wrote: > > Im sure I cant be the only person who goes between several 802.11b > > networks, each with its own set of essid's and keys. Windows has the > > ability to detect which network is availible, and use the keys you have > > stored for it. However, I could not find the equivelant for linux. Does > > anyone know of such a tool? I wrote my own script for dhcpd that seems to > > work for me, but it is not very flexable, and I was hoping there would be > > a more robust solution out there. Any thoughts? > > No thoughts yet. I was hoping to find something similar that would also > handle wired ports. I've set up an expect script on my laptop that > automatically runs ifup/ifdown when a cable is plugged in or removed. > It'd be great to have something that would fall back to wireless when > wired connections go away and vice-versa. I was thinking of trying to > mangle something together myself, but I need to get some new hardware > first. I know that Mandrake comes with something called ifplugd that monitors if you plug in a network cable or somesuch and trys to get an address if you do. More info can be found here. Looks like this is exactly what you are looking for: http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/ifplugd/ -- Bret Baptist Systems and Technical Support Specialist bbaptist at iexposure.com Internet Exposure, Inc. http://www.iexposure.com (612)676-1946 x17 Web Development-Web Marketing-ISP Services ------------------------------------------ Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list