Let's introduce a measure here, a competitive comparison. Exactly that same
machine with exactly the same cabling has Ubuntu installed. One can recognize
this easily.
I booted to Ubuntu 8.10, with rge0 and WiFi plugged. This is the result:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:e0:4d:30:2d:68
inet addr:192.168.116.61 Bcast:192.168.116.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4dff:fe30:2d68/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1526 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1408 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2167320 (2.1 MB) TX bytes:115450 (115.4 KB)
Interrupt:248 Base address:0x4000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:476 (476.0 B) TX bytes:476 (476.0 B)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:27:c0:a8:9b
inet addr:192.168.116.198 Bcast:192.168.116.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::221:27ff:fec0:a89b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1941 (1.9 KB) TX bytes:4913 (4.9 KB)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-21-27-C0-A8-9B-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
udippel at ubuwe:~$ netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
192.168.116.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.116.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.116.200 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
udippel at ubuwe:~$ ssh 192.168.116.100
[...]
$
Isn't this beautiful? No problem with 'same access point' and whatnot we have
been treated to in this thread.
Let's get at its throat, I hard unplug the wired network. And this is what I
get:
~$ netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
192.168.116.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0
0.0.0.0 192.168.116.200 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0
udippel at ubuwe:~$ ping 192.168.116.100
PING 192.168.116.100 (192.168.116.100) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.116.100: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=5.64 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.116.100: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=2.03 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.116.100: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=1.65 ms
^C
--- 192.168.116.100 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2009ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.656/3.112/5.642/1.795 ms
Meaning, hard uplugging the wired network doesn't do any harm. It recognizes
the lack of wired network, unconfigures it and sets the new gateway; without
any activity at all from my side. Not a single mouse click nor a single
character were needed.
No, no flames. I even am not a proponent of Ubuntu. In order to get a foothold
into the desktop market, this is the level OpenSolaris needs to attain. And one
that it needs to attain shortly.
My usual 2 sen (though here it could be 3 or even 4),
Uwe
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