On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 02:06:23PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Do you have any reasons to hate it, > > I for instance would - although much less on a unixoid OS than on *eew* > Windoze. With multiple IP interfaces, there > is a strong tendency for nonunicast IP packets leaving the box via the > "wrong" interface - regardless of the source > address being written into the packet. So in general, I would see use cases > for not automatically having a wired and a > wireless interfaces active at the same time. Some Laptop firmwares even have > such a "Wifi XOR LAN" switch you can > activate in their BIOSs. > > >The fastest device is always used for new TCP connections, so it's not like > >it'll slow anything down. > > How does TCP know about an interface's speed? I would assume that it just > passes it's segments to the IP layer - > which will then forward packets according to what the routing table says.
NM tweaks the routing table in such a way that traffic is going through faster devices. So TCP doesnt know; instead NM guesses what is a the best interface. - Alexander _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list