On Saturday 14 March 2009 19:51:51 John Mahoney wrote: > 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. > > Thanks, > John
Perhaps I should have explained my situation a little more... In instances where I am using two connections, it is not for a load/traffic balancing purpose. Primarily, it is on work sites where the wireless is my connection to the internet and the LAN is a segregated LAN with no outside access. The problem is that when I have a wireless connection going, then plug in the ethernet - the route defaults to the wired connection. Hence, killing my ability to waste time surfing and reading mailing lists... ;) This also applies in reverse; if I start with a wired connection, and then associate the wireless - the route still defaults to the wired. It sounds like the person that started this thread also has a similar issue (needing to connect to a printer). Now, whether this is caused by NM and the way it manages connections is not known to me. Daniel _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
