On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 09:20 -0600, 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. > > Mikkel NM essenntially does everyting described in your last paragraph. -- ======================================================================= "...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)." (By Matt Welsh) ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
