I have a laptop that is connected to my home network over wireless connection. The laptop runs a bit torrent client which downloads to a mounted NAS filesystem . I would like the laptop the run the bit torrent client on startup but this of course requires mounting the remote filesystem first. I tried placing an entry in /etc/fstab
but this obviously fails because when mount occurs the laptop is not yet associated with the wireless network.
I would like to know what is the best practice in this situation. I would also like to support situations in which the specific wireless network is not available - in that case the client should not be started at startup.
One last thing - my distribution is Gentoo so a solution that takes advantage of /etc/cond.d/net
configuration options is possible.