On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:30:01PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > My laptop has both on-board wired Ethernet and 802.11a/b wireless. > Both of these work fine; I'm using them with ifplugd and it behaves > mostly as I expect. But the thing is, I recently took the CVS version > of the madwifi Atheros 802.11 driver, and so now ifplugd actually > tries to start the wireless... > > Is there a good tool for setting up the networking "properly"? In > particular, I'd like the system to: > > (1) Prefer the wired Ethernet if it's available, and not put a default > route via ath0 [wireless] if there's already a default route via > eth0 [wired].
I use if test "`/sbin/mii-tool`" = "eth0: no link"; as a very simple test in a similar situation. There's probably some tool with does it better, though. (That's from my .xinitrc: I start a power monitor if there's no wired ethernet, and a web browser if there is.) Jon Leonard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
