Re: Very basic multiple-interface configuration
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:30:01PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> My laptop has both on-board wired Ethernet and 802.11a/b wireless.
> Both of these work fine; I'm using them with ifplugd and it behaves
> mostly as I expect. But the thing is, I recently took the CVS version
> of the madwifi Atheros 802.11 driver, and so now ifplugd actually
> tries to start the wireless...
>
> Is there a good tool for setting up the networking "properly"? In
> particular, I'd like the system to:
>
> (1) Prefer the wired Ethernet if it's available, and not put a default
> route via ath0 [wireless] if there's already a default route via
> eth0 [wired].
I use
if test "`/sbin/mii-tool`" = "eth0: no link";
as a very simple test in a similar situation. There's probably some tool
with does it better, though. (That's from my .xinitrc: I start a power
monitor if there's no wired ethernet, and a web browser if there is.)
Jon Leonard
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