I'm so happy, I bought a Sun (ultra60, 2x450MHz, 1GB RAM) with a pretty 21" Triniton Sony. At this
time, I have a basic Solaris 9, but I downloading Solaris 10's ISO while I'm writing this blog
entry :) I'm looking forward to try Solaris's Zone. I even read that will be possible to use
a *BSD inside a Solaris Zone.

23h00

While radio playing some nice songs (Pink Floyd, Noir Désir, etc..) I'm working in my NMS
project. I also use the mapping feature (in the Debian network configuration file) for
the first time. It's quite useful. You just need a script which echo the configuration
you want for the interface gived as argument. So my script is simple as:

<code>
#!/bin/sh

CONFIG=/tmp/network.conf

if [ -r $CONFIG ]; then
    cat $CONFIG
else
    echo dhcp
fi
</code>

and the /etc/network/interfaces eth0 part :

<code>
mapping eth0
        script /usr/local/bin/network-config.sh
        map home home
        map dhcp dhcp

iface home inet static
        address 192.168.99.1
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        up iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.99.0/24 -o eth2 -j MASQUERADE
        up echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

iface dhcp inet dhcp
        up /root/bin/vpn-route.sh
</code>

**NB** I previously tried map home eth0-home and iface home-eth0 inet ... configuration.
But I had errors with ifup using this syntax.

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