Guessnet resources

Description

Guessnet is a network detection tool to use when moving a machine among networks which don't necessarily provide DHCP.

Guessnet takes in input a list of candidate network profiles, each of which includes a test description; then it runs all the tests in parallel and prints the name of the profile whose test was the first one to succeed.

Available tests are:

• ARP probes to check for known hosts in the network;
• Link beat check, to check if the interface is connected to anything;
• Wireless lan checks, to look for access points found by waproamd;
• PPPOE check to see if there is a concentrator accessible via PPPOE;
• Miscellaneous other checks provided by custom arbitrary scripts.

Guessnet can be used in either native mode or "ifupdown mode". In the latter case, guessnet integrates nicely with ifupdown as a "mapping script".

FAQ and troubleshooting

There is a FAQ that gets updated to collect extracts of the various successful email exchanges about guessnet.

Development resources

APT Repository

guessnet is now an official debian package, look for it in standard debian repositories. New versions will be uploaded to experimental.

Development mailing list

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/guessnet-devel

Subversion repository

svn co svn://svn.debian.org/guessnet/trunk guessnet

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