two network interfaces active at the same time?

[John L Fjellstad]

"Christopher J. Bottaro" <cjbottaro at alumni.cs.utexas.edu> writes:

> Ahh, that helped a lot, thank you.  A few more questions though...
>
> 1) What does the "auto" mean before each device name?  

automatically get this interface up.  (as in, when the system is booted,
and the /etc/init.d/networking script runs, any interface with the auto
line will get started).

> 2) Are there
> some man pages I can read about this, so I can stop bothing you nice
> people?  :) 

man interfaces


> 3) ath0 is a wireless device...does that change anything?
> Do the wireless settings go in /etc/network/interfaces or somewhere
> else?

All networking goes into /etc/network/interfaces.
Wireless devices have some extra options. Check the man page for
interfaces(5).

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