[Hudlug] changing internet connections

Ben Fowler ben.the.mole at gmail.com
Sun Sep 18 16:19:38 BST 2005


On 8/19/05, MICHAEL WEAVER <michaelweaver1 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> If I purchase a laptop is it easy to change Internet connections under
> Linux?
> What I mean is if I had to have help installing a Linux distro and 
> needed to download any packages in the Voxbar, would I be able to 
> change my settings to my Internet connection at home?

Yes. It is trivial.

Essentially, you tell the kernel whaich interface (often ppp0 or eth0)
to connect through, and run a dhcp client on that interface.

There is probably a GUI for it!

Ben



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