John Beck wrote: > I think > it is fairly safe to assume that if a cable is plugged into an Ethernet > port of a machine, then the user wants the machine to bring up *the* > network to which the cable is attached, whereas a wireless interface > could pick up an AP from just about anywhere, and choosing from among > *multiple* networks (and even worse, multiple unknown networks) without > data is nothing but a crap-shoot. I had also thought once that we could assume that cabled Ethernet would trump all other connections, though one thing Mac allows users to do is set the order of preference. (See http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/stateoftheart/mac/network-port-configuration-drag.png) Because there are a number of different protocols they support (modem, bluetooth, ethernet, firewire, airport), it makes more sense. If Solaris supports only Ethernet & Wireless, there might not be as much sense.
Of course, the default would be that the Ethernet has priority over Wireless. Ann
