[ale] Q: Setting up alternate net interfaces in Slack

[John Mills]

Ahh -

Good-oh. I now have each one working separately (c/o Geoffrey), and this
will let me swap easily. Just what I was looking for.

Thanks to you both.

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Jonathan Rickman wrote:

> On Sunday 16 November 2003 18:30, John Mills wrote:

> > The laptop also has a pcmcia network card and I want to use it for
> > network interface when I have ethernet available, but still have PPP to
> > use when I need it. It would be fine if I have to start 'eth0' with a
> > script, it might be handy if I could specifically choose DHCP or static
> > addressing.
 
> Run netconfig to set up your most used configuration then...
 
> cp /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 /etc/rc.d/rc.inetmod1 

 ...
 
> /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 stop
 
> /etc/rc.d/rc.inetmod1 start

 - John Mills
   john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu