Re: Proposition of reviving multi method

[Michael Albinus]

<address@hidden> writes:

> Disadvantage of the tramp-default-proxies-alist construction is that
> it doesn't take into account that there may be more than one route to
> an account on a host. For instance, the route may depend on where you
> are.  Also, one route may be to log in directly into an application
> account, an alternate route may be to log in to a personal account and
> do su/sudo (or similar) from there to the application account.
>
> With multi-hop you can specify which route you want to use to get
> there in each case.

In such a case, you check the route during startup. For example:

(defun my-host-reachable-p (hostname)
  (zerop (call-process "ping" nil nil nil hostname "-c" "1")))

(if (my-host-reachable-p "homeserver")
    ;; I'm at home
    (add-to-list 'tramp-default-proxies-alist ...)
  ;; I'm in the company
  (add-to-list 'tramp-default-proxies-alist ...))

> Regards,
>
> Peter Wagemans

Best regards, Michael.