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Network Manager



Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Recently on my laptop I have been noticing Network Manager connecting
> both wired and wireless at the same time. In the past, I thought that NM
> would only connect on one, bu not the other. Currently routing is
> showing the default route to the gateway through the wired interface,
> but there are 2 routes on the same subnet, one each through the 2
> interfaces. This does not bother me, but there could be some interesting
> issues. It also appears that network manager has recently changed on
> Ubuntu. (Actually NM version 0.7).  Just curious.

I've noticed that as well with Fedora.  Like you mentioned, it actually seems
pretty smart in that it will prefer using the wired link as the default route.
  I haven't had any issues, but I also don't have wireless networks that use
the same subnet as my wired links...







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