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.
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