FC3 Networking with Multiple NICs

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 23:16 -0500, Rob Miracle wrote:
> I've got a Dell laptop with FC3 installed.  It has a built in wired 
> ethernet which gets ID'd as eth0.  When I plug it into the docking station, 
> it picks up the ethernet port there as eth1.  The system uses which ever 
> one the cord is plugged into since it detects the cable missing from the 
> other.  No problem so far.  I've also got an SMC wireless card id'ed as 
> ath0.  If I'm wireless, it uses ath0 like it should.  However, if I plug my 
> wired in to eth0 (I haven't tried it with the docking station since I got 
> the ath drivers installed), it appears to pick up ath0 as the network card 
> of choice.
> 
> Is there a way to prioritize eth0 other than pulling the wireless card out?

NetworkManager is supposed to do this but can be a bit flaky and doesn't
work well with all cards. Worth a try though.

See:
http://www.fedoranews.org/contributors/jim_lawrence/network_manager/

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>