Re: Example of 'brilliant' apps?

[Gabriel Ambuehl <gaml@xxxxxx>]

Erik Wikström wrote:

> "Steven Shaw" <steshaw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1ba9d4a0050320043767a73196@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> > Pretty sure what you are looking for is "apple rendezvous". Just
> > google those terms. Apple makes this technology available under a
> > liberal license.
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> > From what I can tell from http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/rendezvous/
> rendezvous seems more like UnPnp, and is not what I want. Currenty I have a
> small shell-script which I run when I have logged in, the script takes two
> parameters, the first is a name of the netwok and the second tells if it
> should try to connect via cable or wireless. What I want is a program that
> automatically detects which network I'm in and apply appropriate settings.
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It would seem like an awfully hard thing to reliably detect what network 
your on for all but the very simplest networks, no? Partner MAC will 
rarely be the same all the time in complex networks (especially when 
they use multiple AP to cover wide ranges with WiFi), IP often are 
private ones, so not really useful either...