Re: Is this the way NM should work?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 15:32 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 16:05 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> > I have a laptop with both a working wireless interface and a working
> > ethernet 
> > wired interface.  Normally, I run wireless.  
> > 
> > On Fedora 9, if I plug into the wired interface, it is brought up also
> > so I 
> > now have both the wired and wireless interfaces enabled.  Fortunately,
> > both 
> > interfaces are on the same (sub) network so routine does not get
> > screwed up.  
> > 
> > This does not happen on Fedora 8.  On Fedora 8, when I plug in the
> > wired 
> > interface, the wireless interface is disabled and the wired interface
> > is 
> > enabled.  Conversely, when I unplug the wired interface, it is
> > disabled and 
> > the wireless interface is enabled.
> > 
> > The way things work under Fedora 8 is how I expect things to work.
> > However, 
> > there may be good reasons for how things work in Fedora 9. 
> What you discribe is a change between f6 and f9. 

And F8 will be updated with the same changes when they land in F9; there
are already testing builds of svn3623 for F8 that have this behavior.

Dan