f8: NetworkManager + runlevel 3 problem

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue Nov 13 23:28:23 UTC 2007


Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 06:52 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> Not possible with NM.

As I said a few days ago. QED.


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