On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 13:50 -0700, Luca Pireddu wrote: > When both my wireless and wired networking devices are connected, how can I > get my laptop to use the wired device and ignore the wireless one? I tried > specifying a higher metric for my wired device (via ifconfig metric), but it > doesn't seem to have an effect. The normal way is to use one of the packages for detecting and setting interfaces so that it only leaves the appropriate one configured. I maintain 'whereami', which works this way, but there are plenty of other choices. Cheers, Andrew. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/ PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis St DDI: +64(4)803-2201 MOB: +64(272)DEBIAN OFFICE: +64(4)499-2267 Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler -- Einstein -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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