New feature: zeroconf networking by default, please test

[Martin Pitt]

Hi Andreas,

sorry for the delay.

Andreas Schildbach [2006-12-16 17:36 +0100]:
> Two machines are connected to a wireless router, over the air. This is 
> sufficient for most communications, both to the Internet and between the 
> two machines. But sometimes you want to whop some DVD image from one 
> machine to the other. For this purpose, the two machines are ad-hoc 
> connected directly with an ethernet cable.
> 
> Currently, if I plug in the ethernet cable, network manager drops the 
> WLAN connection.

This is a bit weird. If I have an established WLAN connection, n-m
does not automatically drop it for me, I have to manually switch to
the wired connection.

> This is not what I expect in this case, because I loose 
> internet connectivity. 

Right, and would disrupt current TCP connections. If that happens for
you, please file a bug against network-manager.

However, since n-m currently only knows about one active connection,
you cannot set up the described scenario with n-m at the moment. You
have to manually configure the ethernet card for DHCP (with long
timeout) or the new 'ipv4ll' method (no DHCP timeout) with
network-admin.

> Also, I do not get any 169.254.0.0/16 address for eth0, although
> this worked some days ago on my first try.

With n-m? If you can reproduce this, can you please file a bug against
n-m and subscribe me?

Thanks!

Martin

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