Re: Wireless

From: Wodans (wodans11_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:58:32 -0500

"Tauno Voipio" <tauno.voipio@iki.fi.NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message
news:FQXOb.857$QR3.701@read3.inet.fi...
> Wodans wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got two nics set up on Suse 9.
> >
> > eth0 = non wireless and works fine both on network and internet. IP=
> > 192.168.1.11 gateway = 192.168.1.1, name server = 192.168.1.1
> >
> > eth1 = wireless broadcom (pci linuxant driver) IP=192.168.1.12,
> > gateway=192.168.1.1, name server = 192.168.1.1.
> >
> > Both nics are connected to a linksys router. As I said the wired nic is
> > working as it should. Though I can only access my network if "ifconfig
eth0
> > down" via the wireless nic. Even though I can access the network I
cannot
> > access internet via eth1...
> >
>
> You have both interfaces in the same subnet. It makes it impossible
> to simply route the traffic via both interfaces.
>
> The routing problem will be the default route: there can be only
> one default route in a system, and it's used for the Net.
>
> If you really want to use both connections at the same time,
> see the Adv-Routing-HOWTO.
>
> HTH
>
> Tauno Voipio
> tauno voipio @ iki fi
>
>

Thanx for the info!
Though the thing I want to do is to start eth0 (wired) automatically if the
wire is present and start eth1 (wireless) if the wire is not present. Is
there any script or something that would do this?

Cheers,

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