On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 09:15 -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > 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 Hi Jack, My understanding is that NetworkManager does this now, and has since at least FC3. I am happily using it on a laptop that alternates between wired and wireless interfaces. >From the README: <quote> >From a list of all adapters currently installed on the system, NetworkManager will first try a wired and then a wireless adapter. Wireless adapters that support wireless scanning are preferred over ones that cannot. NetworkManager does not try to keep a connection up as long as possible, meaning that plugging into a wired network will switch the connection to the wired network away from the wireless one. </quote> Cheers, Ben
