[maemo-developers] Detecting network route change, acting on changes

[From: Hartti Suomela]

There is a dbus event for that, use dbus-monitor to see what event it
exactly is.
Or check the command line script archive of command line widget
http://wiki.maemo.org/Desktop_Command_Execution_Widget_scripts#Networking
Or check Personal IP Address home widget
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/personal-ip-address/

Hartti

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Matthew Smith <matt at smiffytech.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> I have now had my N900 for just over a week - got it doing most of what
> I want and behaving like just another one of my Debian boxes.
>
> What I would like to be able to do is to detect when the network
> connection/route changes from my home WLAN to any other network (another
> WLAN or 3G.)
>
> If there is some way of catching this event, I'd like to, on the basis
> of which network I'm on, change my /etc/hosts.
>
> Currently doing this manually, as connections to stuff in my LAN
> requires different behaviour depending on whether I'm connecting from
> inside or out.  (So my servers are on private IP addresses when I'm
> home, connecting through a public IP address/NAT when away.)
>
> Can anyone point me to a suitable technique/recipe to do this?  Ideally
> I'd like to do what is required in shell or Perl as I have yet to get my
> head around Python and lack the time to learn at present.
>
> Cheers
>
> M
>
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