network config with two network cards as route to gateway

[Jerry Feldman]

On 07 Jul 2004 23:57:02 -0400
John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:

> I used to do something similar, although I had rolled my own scripts 
> for switching realms. But now I don't bother. Rather than configure 
> my laptop with a static address when I'm at home, I just added the 
> MAC address of my pcmcia ethernet card to /etc/dhcpd.conf and assigned
> 
> it a static address there, so my dhcp server at home always gives my 
> laptop that same address. This completely eliminates the hassle. 
I found that this was not always true with my laptop and the BEFSW11.
Every once in a while it would give be .101 or .102. 
In any case, with profiles and profile support in Grub, I set up
profiles for the 3 main environments:
home - static IP print to Printer attached to Windows.
NEU  - dynamic IP, print to printer in the 2 rooms I use at NEU.
MIT4-370 - static IP for MIT 4-370

Profiles can be set either at boot time, or at any time:
sudo SCPM switch MIT4370



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