Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ekiga
I run a laptop with wireless and wired network interfaces, and VMware.
VMware creates virtual network interfaces which are always up, whereas
eth0 and eth1 can go down when I take the laptop offline.
Each time I go offline (take the laptop to another location), ekiga
changes to using a VMNET interface as the source, *always* breaking VOIP
until I manually reset it to use the correct interface when I'm back
online. Often, the new interface doesn't even show up correctly when I
get reconnected to the network. I have to shut down ekiga and restart
the app in order to manually select the correct interface... *each* time
I visit a coffeeshop or other location.
Is there a way to deal with this currently?
Perhaps the app should notice the change in default route and select an
interface that has one. Or perhaps set priorities... ie. if eth1 comes
up and the default interface is anything else, use eth1. or eth0 if
eth1 isn't available, and anything else otherwise.... but certainly
switch back to the preferred interface when it becomes available.
Until then, a quick and easy fix would be to allow the setting of an interface
and not auto-changing it.
This is seriously forcing me to reconsider using the app at all, as each time I
start it up I'm having to spend 5 minutes getting everything to work correctly.
Thanks,
Matt
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 11 12:41:24 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ekiga
Package: ekiga 2.0.3-0ubuntu8
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: ekiga
ProcCwd: /home/matt
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/home/matt/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/atlas/@UtilityBelt-2.0
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ekiga
Uname: Linux faramir 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:55:27 UTC 2007 i686
GNU/Linux
** Affects: ekiga (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Ekiga keeps changing my network interface to VMNET interfaces when I take my
laptop offline
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138932
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