how smart will wireless be in FC5?

[Steven J Lamb]

I am not the biggest bash guru so some one else help me here, but when I was 
doing stuff with wireless it seems like your problem could be solved by 
writing a bash script in your if-up script. basically you write it to check 
to see if your eth0 comes up and if it does it doesn't bring up wireless. in 
fact you could get really fancy and make it switch automatically whenever 
you plug-in or un-plug the cable.

the only difficulty I see is there is probably a race condition of some sort 
depending on the order of which interface comes up first.

just a thought from the bash inept Linux newbie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Howarth" <howarth at bromo.msbb.uc.edu>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 8:15 AM
Subject: how smart will wireless be in FC5?


>   Does anyone know if the following will be possible in FC5? I
> am interested in being able to set up a portable Linux box such
> that if the ethernet interface is available the internet access
> will be used through eth0 otherwise the wireless interface will be used.
> Currently in Fedora Core 4, it seems that I am stuck with either
> automatically enabling both interfaces at startup or manually
> starting one or the other. What I am trying to avoid is having
> both interfaces in use if the ethernet interface comes up at startup.
> Thanks in advance for any information.
>       Jack
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