On 05/11/2011 01:43 PM, Marc Herbert wrote: > Hi Ferry, > > Le 11/05/2011 12:12, Ferry Huberts a écrit : >> Yesterday I by accident looked at the routing table of a Windows 7 laptop >> with both ethernet and wlan connected and I saw something interesting: >> >> Both connections set up a default gateways in the routing table! >> Each default gateway takes the metric of the connection to which it >> belongs, so for for example for the ethernet a metric of 0, for the wlan a >> metric of 100, etc. >> >> Which is quite logical in fact and made me wonder why we don't do that? >> It seems obvious now that I've seen it done, or am I missing something? >> >> I've tested it on my F15 laptop and seems to work > > Very interesting. > > Have you "stress-tested" it with various combinations of "ip link set > up/down" and killing/restarting wpa_supplicant? (while NM is off > of course). >
No, I just tested having multiple default gateways. But be my guest to test those scenarios :-) I'll bet you they'll work just fine just as long as those programs don't manually mess with the routing table. grtz -- Ferry Huberts _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
