An elegant solution for an annoying problem. Thank you. On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Helge Hafting <[email protected]>wrote:
> Bringing up one interface creates a default route, which is necessary no > matter which interface is used. > > Bringing up both interfaces makes two default routes, and there is the > risk that the phone ends up using the slower interface which obviously > is a problem. > > I set up /etc/network/interfaces like this, adapted from SHR: > > auto usb0 > iface usb0 inet static > address 192.168.0.202 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > network 192.168.0.0 > gateway 192.168.0.200 metric 1 > up echo nameserver 208.67.222.222 >> /etc/resolv.conf > up echo nameserver 208.67.220.220 >> /etc/resolv.conf > > The "metric" does the trick. When usb0 is the only interface, the usb0 > route gets used as usual. > > If some other interface comes up (in my case, eth0) > then that one gets a default route too, but that default route > comes up with the default metric of 0. > > So, the eth0 default route is seen as "shorter", and is preferred over > usb0 when both are available. Which is good, as eth0 is faster. > > So, no need to delete the usb0 default route when bringing up other > interfaces, with the associated problem of restoring the usb0 route when > the other interface goes away. > > Helge Hafting > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > -- --------------------------------------------------------- Atilla Filiz Eindhoven University of Technology Embedded Systems, Master's Programme --------------------------------------------------------
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