[ale] multiple network setups (wireless)?

[Bob Toxen]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:23:47PM -0500, Jay Loden wrote:
> I have a wireless laptop running Debian (mepis linux, technically) and I use 
> it at work/school and at home.   At home, I have no encryption, since I use 
> MAC address filtering. 
MAC address filtering is ***WORTHLESS*** for security and WEP is not much
better.  Even the Wireless Manufacturers association says to use real
encryption if you care about security.  I.e., use SSH, SSL, IPSec, or
similar.

> At school, however, we have 128 bit WEP.  Does anyone on the list know how to 
> get it so that when I boot, it can figure out where I am and configure 
> accordingly, or alternatively how I can get grub to boot to a specific net 
> configuration? 

> I currently just let the network auto-detect fail, then manually run a script 
> that sets iwconfig options and then does an "ifup eth0" at the end.  This is 
> hackish and while it works, I'd like to find out how one goes about doing 
> this the "right" way.  Thanks for the input!

> -Jay

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