On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: > What if you queried your routing table instead? Usually there's just one > default route, and hopefully it would be configured to use the "best" > interface. >
I wouldn't necessarily trust even this, on Windows. I've lately had the most insane trouble getting my XP laptop to function properly as a proxy - LAN connection has the default gateway, wifi has only 192.168.* - and Windows kept on trying to send DNS queries out on the wireless connection, and then wondered why it didn't get a result. Explicit is better than implicit. Instead of using the order, have a config file that chooses the one(s) you want by name or IP address. Of course, if you're on Unix/Linux, you can use the interface name (eth0, eth1, etc) with a fair degree of reliability. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
