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Some Linux network config help needed	by Control	2006-09-07 02:00:50
Some small pointers	by ttlogic	2006-09-07 02:17:02
AFAIK you cannot tell ifconfig to get the IP address via DHCP. You'll need to just 'ifconfig eth0 up' the interface, than start the DHCP client on that interface ('dhclient eth0' for me, but your distro may use another dhcp client like pump). Proxies: I have no idea. DNS: the DNS servers to use are usually stored in /etc/resolv.conf. All decent DHCP clients modify this file based on the info they get from the server; for your purpose you could make /etc/resolv.conf.work which you then copy to /etc/resolv.conf when enabling your work profile. A final thought: it may be possible to automate the selection of profiles. One possible way to do that: first try to use use DHCP. If that succeeds, set the remaining stuff not done by dhcp (like the proxy?) to sensible values. If dhcp times out, fallback to the work profile. This is of course assuming work doesn't even have a dhcp server on the network...
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.. whose info would be not acceptable	by anymouse	2006-09-07 02:19:18

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