f8: NetworkManager + runlevel 3 problem

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Nov 12 21:52:36 UTC 2007


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> WiFi and ethernet use different devices, with different interfaces
>> and different MACs, so in my experience, at least,
>> they don't affect one another in the slightest.
>>
> Where they can affect each other is in things like the default
> route. Is your default route through the wired or wireless
> connection? If your wired connection goes down, should your wireless
> connection become the defaults route. Or should the wireless
> connection have preference when it comes to the default route? Do
> both interfaces provide a route to the Internet?
> 
> One situation that I would expect to be fairly common is a laptop
> that uses a wireless connection to the Internet, but gets plugged in
> when you are back at your desk. You would want the wired connection
> to take over when it is there, but the wireless connection to take
> over when you unplug. You would probably want the wireless
> connection to go down when the wired connection is plugged in.

Another that happens to me often is I want both active. I also need to 
choose which provides the default route, it's not always the same.


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