Re: What happens if there are two interfaces?

[Nathanael Noblet <nathanael gnat ca>]

NM wouldn't have anything to do with this. I'm no expert, however I 
think a search on routing algorithms may help. In my mind the answer is 
'it depends' if you have two routes you will have one 'default' route 
and unless you don't have something there saying that the packets going 
out would be better on one route over the other it'll go out the default 
route. If you were running some routing peering protocols I would think 
it could then calculate the best way to go, however on a default system 
setup you'd get the default if the other interface didn't specifically 
have routes set for that destination.


On 12/25/2012 05:40 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Just an elementary question.
> Where are packets sent if there are two interfaces,
> say WLAN and ethernet, in operation?
> Does NM or the kernel try to work out which is better?
>
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