two network interfaces active at the same time?

Priyadarsan Roy priyadarsanroy at gmail.com
Mon Jun 19 11:41:53 UTC 2006


Hi Chirstopher,

I believe a machine can only have only one default gateway at a time. 
Even though the $route -n might show you two entries, only the last one 
will work.

So try adding with out the default gateway for one of the interfaces.

PD

Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> Hello,
> Well I finally got 6.06 up and running on fakeRAID and Reiserfs...phew.
>
> Now I want to do what the title of this thread says.  I have a wireless card
> that is running well, configured via KNetworkManager.  It has ip address
> 192.168.1.101 and connects to gateway 192.168.1.1.
>
> I also have an ethernet card.  I want that card active at the same time as
> my wireless card, but with ip address 192.168.2.101 and connected to
> gateway 192.168.2.1 (routing traffic appropriately, but I think it does
> that automatically).
>
> I've tried to set this up with System Settings -> Internet & Network ->
> Network Settings, but it won't let me.  It won't let me active the eth0
> (ethernet) interface while the ath0 (wireless) is active.
>
> I wonder, is this a problem with that kcontrol module or KNetworkManager?
>
> Any tips or suggestions?  Thanks for the help.
>
> P.S.  Anyway to get KNetworkManager not to use DHCP when it connects to
> stuff?
>
>
>   





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