> Could you possibly have written a more useless plea for help? yes
> You haven't said 1) what version of OpenBSD you are using, > 2) what laptop you have, 3) what wireless card you have, 4) > a copy of the kernel dmesg output. None of this matters given that the unreliability isnt anything to do with openbsd. I believe this to be my location. All im asking is how I can get the OS to switch from one to the other automatically if one is not available. I think you misunderstood my question. > > I *think* what you want to learn about is the dhclient command > so you can switch back and forth between a wireless and > ethernet connection, but given the lack of details, I can't be > sure. Yes I'm familiar with dhclient. Not sure how this could help though. > > You need to read the openbsd site and pay particular attention > to the mailing list procedures. I plead not guilty. > maybe you could use 'ifconfig wi0 down' (that disables all the routes > configured to that interface)..? and than the whole traffic would be > passed through the 'wired' interface (assuming proper config on that > interface). yes, this was one of my initial ideas. Requires intervention... > you could try to manipulate the routing tables via route(8). I'll look into that. Thanks for your help. > I don't have the means to try this at hand, but > write a simple script to change the default > route as needed, back and forth between the wired > and wireless interfaces. I can't immediately > think any reason that won't work. Thats exactly what I do right now. I have a script with the suid bit set that i can run to switch interfaces. Its the suid bit I dont like. Thanks for the input guys Best Regards Edd
