[gentoo-user] Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly?

["W.Kenworthy" <billk@iinet.net.au>]

Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly?

I currently connect to multiple networks using a laptop with an ipw2200
wireless and a built in NIC consisting of:
NIC, fixed IP
NIC, DHCP
NIC, DHCP and openvpn
NIC, DHCP and CiscoVPN
wireless with wpa/tkip
wireless with wpa/tkip and openvpn
wireless plain with openvpn
wireless plain with CiscoVPN.
all configs have common services like a caching bind server, zebedee and
apache and various other services not normally seen on a laptop.  These
usually need restarting in order for the new config to take.

and obviously more than one network of each type in some cases.
It is wireless or NIC, not both at once.

Currently I arrive at a site and run a script that copies in the config
files for the needed configuration, and then restarts the needed
services.  This broke with the last baselayout changes - wierd things
happen like zebedee running ok when the initscript is run from the
commandline, but not from a script.  So I reverted, but I am thinking I
need to redesign the system or start making bug reports in order to use
the latest changes.

Also, is there an integrated way to plug in a network cable and have a
config RELIABLY recognised and trigger the necessary actions?  Its not a
good look to arrive at lecture in front of 30-50 people and struggle to
connect to the local network, which seems par for the course for gentoo!

BillK

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