On 11/26/06, Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I can just notice an astonishing difference between metrics: 25 under Windows, 2000 (!) under Linux.
The absolute value of an interface metric is meaningless, they only matter in relation to other interface metrics active at the time. They are used to decide between interfaces when a host can be reached through more than one interface. So for example, if you have a dialup connection as well as broadband, you would want the broadband connection to have a lower metric than the dialup so that it is the 'preferred' interface. What do "ifconfig wlan" and "iwconfig wlan" report for the fast and slow states? And the host that you are pinging, is a remote internet host or something local (like 192.168.2.1)? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
