Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Alexandre Rossi wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> the wireless interface before I get a connection. Is there any IF
>>> priority setting available in Debian? What I'd like to do is tell Debian
>>> to use the wired interface when both are available.
>>
>> There are, as far as I know, three ways to do this :
>> - dirty hack to automatically ifdown wlan0 before eth0 goes up (using
>> pre-up stanzas in /etc/network/interfaces). There may be more
>> complicated things using a lockfile for example.
>> - using ifmetric to route traffic through the cable instead of the
>> wireless NIC. - using the bonding kernel driver as suggested[1] once to
>> prioritize the cable. I could not make it work with wpa_supplicant and
>> ipw2200 though, but in my view, it feels like the perfect setup for a
>> laptop.
>
> knetworkmanager - I don't know if it's available for Debian yet, but there's
> a version for Ubuntu. With network-manager, the wired interface always
> takes precedence. You may find, however, that it lacks enough features for
> your configuration - it's working well for me with two wired and two
> wireless networks.
I used ifmetric to solve this very problem, eg:
iface eth0 inet static
address ...
metric 1
iface eth1 inet static
channel ...
address ...
metric 10
I don't know if there is a good gui that supports metrics. There
should be because metrics are kinda important.
Nic
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