Re: More than one network adapter in NM

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 01:12 +0100, David wrote:
> Hi there, I've been using NetoworkManager for some time, and it is simply 
> great, but I have a little question/idea to comment:
> - If I have more than one network adapters connected at the same time: 
> ethernet and my wireless network, is it possible to bind those two into one 
> "virtual adapter" inside NetworkManager?

Not at this time; Tambet did some testing last year and found you
*could* do it, but wpa_supplicant needed some updates first.  This is
basically bonding + failover.  We'll get there, it's a great idea, but
bridging will come first as bonding shares a substantial amount of
internal config with it...

Dan

> This would be useful, for example, if I switch off the ethernet cable, because 
> I am moving my laptop, and not to lose any download, nor anything else.
> 
> It would be awesome that NetworkManager could do this in the background 
> automatically whenever more than one interface is connected to the internet.
> 
> How about that?
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