[LUAU] managing multiple network profiles?

[Jim Thompson]

Charles Lockhart wrote:
> I have a laptop running FC2.  It has both ethernet and wireless.  I have 
> about a dozen different locations that I use my laptop, each one with 
> different network settings.  I have been just using the 
> "system-config-network" interface to change the settings each time I 
> change locations (open up the gui, switch between dhcp/static ip, change 
> dns, gateway, subnet, etc).  But this has gotten tedious, and I'm having 
> a hard time keeping all the numbers straight.
> 
> I've been trying to find a tool that would take care of this for me, 
> something that managed network profiles and allowed me to switch between 
> profiles easily.  I've been looking, but I haven't been able to phrase 
> my search right, and haven't found anything.
> 
> So, primarily I'm interested in knowing of any tools available for doing 
> this?
> And as a secondary question, assuming there's no tool, is there a best 
> practice for doing this?

Quickswitch:
http://quickswitch.sourceforge.net

NetGo:
http://netgo.hjolug.org/

Hprofile:
http://hprofile.sourceforge.net/

FC2 should allow you to manually change profiles, ala
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-network-profiles.html


AP Radar (802.11 only)
http://apradar.sourceforge.net/