Re: multiple interfaces

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 09:29 -0700, listboxster gmail com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> every now and again my DSL craps out and when it does come back up,
> the two interfaces on the internet turn inactive. So I needed a tool
> to keep them up once the net comes back online. I was thinking that
> NetworkManager could do this.
> 
> So I start the service (under FC4) and all it seems to do is make my

FC4 NetworkManager didn't work extremely well...

> lan connection inactive. eth0 is my lan interface and eth1 and eth2
> are my public interfaces. When I start NetworkManager it makes eth0
> inactive, but doesn't seem to see eth1 nor eth2.

> Any help I'd appreciate to get NetworkManager to monitor eth1 and eth2
> and bring them up when available would be awesome!

In any case, right now, NM only allows one interface to be up & active
at any given time.  The next version of NM will change this to allow
more than one interface to be active at any given time.  So likely NM
won't do what you want quite yet.

Dan