Re: [Fwd: Re: here i come !]

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Bruce Robert Pocock">

> There was talk of this in a local LUG recently, about detecting the
> active/available network using things like arpwatch. "I can't see a
> network on your wireless card now, but I see your friendly office
> fileserver on your ethernet card..." (Inspired (?) by Win2k "popup
> network switch detection" things...)

I have played with mii-tool to detect a network and launch dhcp requests.
That's pretty cool, but unfortunately, it doesn't work with the ethernet
card on my iBook. :-)

- Jeff

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