I have heard a lot of talk about people wanting to prioritize devices or use multiple wan devices as once. I strongly disagree with people who want want to use multiple wan devices at once and balance traffic based on connections (src ip,src port,dest ip, dest port). One, this breaks a lot of programs that have related connections which they expect from the same src ip. Two, in a desktop environment with a single user this really does not give a huge performance gain and if one link is much slower than the other it could potentially decrease preformance. Three, it is very complicated.
I would like to see fail over in a sense where an order which specific devices are used can be set. I realize this is a lot of work and feel a good short term fix would be to allow the user to configure the wan priority based on device types. That would possibly help a large portion of users until a more fine tuned fail over solution is implemented. I guess maybe I should ask, is there any plan or interest in implmenting fail over at all. Thanks, John On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday 14 March 2009 13:10:25 Chuck Anderson wrote: > > > I have a laptop running Fedora Core 9 with all the updated versions of > > > Network Manager etc. > > > > > Ethernet cable to the laptop, I lose my internet connection; more > > > specifically the default route is reset from the GSM to the Ethernet, > > > even though the wired intranet does not have any internet access. > > > > What exactly does the default route get set to when you plug in the > > wired Ethernet to the printer? Is it the same value as your IP > > address on that LAN? > > I've noticed the same thing using wired and wireless, it always defaults to > the wired route regardless of pre-existing connections. I've just always > set > it manually afterwards. I have tried on occasion playing with the "Route" > setting in the connection editor, however this has only helped on static > vpns > - perhaps I missed the syntax though. > > Again, never bothered me enough to do anything about it... but since it's > on > the table... there's my two cents. :) > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list >
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