On Thursday, 11 May 2023 15:01:51 BST Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks for both replies. 5 min after I sent my request last night, > I realised that I sb able to access Wifi thro'out installation > simply via the System Rescue connection, which finds the service easily > & needs only the password to finish the job. I do have a landline via DHCP, > but Wifi here is 6 times faster & there sb a lot of downloading to do. > > I will add the details to my info files. > > There is another related question : is there a way > to make both connections simultaneously & switch between them ?
If you configure them both in /etc/conf.d/net with different priorities, both will come up and obtain routes and IP addresses. Use a different metric for each to specify which NIC will take priority in your network stack, e.g.: metric_enp2s0=20 metric_wlp4s0=30 In the above example the wireless is acting as a fallback when the wired enp2s0 fails. Using arpwatch or ip-monitor can automate the fallback by monitoring a particular IP address/route, but to manually switch between them I think you'll have to shut down the one you don't want. Using iproute's 'metric' option to change priorities will also work. However, I think established connections will continue to use the previous NIC and route. There may be more sophisticated ways to achieve what you want, other contributors may have better ideas.
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