Christopher Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a machine running Dapper with two interfaces, one wired, one > wireless.
Sounds like network manager would be ideal. There has been some discussion here about it if you want to search the archives. from memory you want to apt-get install network-manager-gnome edit /etc/network/interfaces and comment out the wired and the wireless interface. run nm-applet, you should see a new mouse like icon in the panel. It adds itself to your session startup programs, so you don't need to do anything for it to start after a reboot. It should default to wired, and switch to wireless if wired goes down. > What is the 'right' way to do this for Ubuntu/Debian. This would be my way if you don't want to use network manager. First ifdown both interfaces, and make sure there's no dhclient running. Setup the wired interface in /etc/network/interfaces to be auto and dhcp, setup the wireless to be dhcp but not auto. ifup the wired interface. Then it will be wired by default, if you want to swap, sudo ifdown wired; sudo ifup wireless. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
