Network: moving between office (static ip) and home (ADSL)

[Tony Dietrich]

On Saturday 15 Jan 2005 15:05, jim lawrence wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:47:50 -0500, Charles E Taylor IV
>
> <tomalek at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:59:44 +0800
> >
> > Shi-Ming Chen <shiming.chen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I have a notebook and take it with me between office and home.
> > > The network connection is static ip address at office and ADSL with a
> > > dhcp server at home.  I must use system-config-network to change
> > > between static ip address and dhcp, in addition to dns server.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > here's something that might work.  Go into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
> > , and copy the ifcfg-eth0 script to ifcfg-homenetwork.  Then, use
> > system-config-network to set up "homenetwork" for your home network and
> > set up the "eth0" device for work.  When you're at woek, you should be
> > able to type "ifup eth0", and when you're at home, "ifup homenetwork"
> > should bring up the network card with the right settings.  You might also
> > want to make check the "allow users to actvate/deactivate" and uncheck
> > "activate device when computer starts" for both of these.
> >
> > I have the opposite situation from you - my home network uses fixed IPs,
> > while work uses DHCP.
> >
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> I have personally tried this as well, where my work and home are using
> dhcp, switching profiles and always have to reboot for changes to take
> affect. A simple restart of the network doesn't do it in my case.
> Seems like alot of work to be switching around from 1 palce to the
> next.
>
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Just a thought Jim.
Have you made sure you bring the old network down?
I had a similar problem in another RH distro, can't remember which one now, 
and had a short script that went something like this:

ipdown <last eth>
service network stop
service network start
ipup <new eth>

Overkill perhaps.
But it worked.
Never did find out why it was needed.
>
> jim lawrence

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