Re: What happens if there are two interfaces?

[Pavel Simerda <psimerda redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Timothy Murphy" <gayleard eircom net>
> Yes, that is what I assume;
> it is accessed through interface eth0 on my laptop.
> So according to the theory that ethernet gets priority,
> all packets should have gone through eth0.
> But that is not what I found;
> ifconfig showed that many packages had gone through
> each interface, rather more through wlan0.

As I already said, the routing table is what you should look at. That's the output of NetworkManager that drives routing.

> >> I also have a very cheap chinese WiFi-Repeater
> >> which sends out a strong signal as seen by "iwlist scan",
> >> but is not seen by NM under Fedora, as far as I can see.
> > 
> > What you see in the scan, should be also accessible in NM.
> 
> Yes, thanks.
> I see now that after right-clicking on the WiFi icon,
> and going to "Network Management Settings",
> when I click on "Add" and then "Scan",
> the WiFi-Repeater is shown on the "map",
> and when I click on this,
> a new Network connection "WiFi-Repeater1" is set up,
> with the information that this has never been used.
> 
> Bizarrely, after doing this
> the WiFi repeater seems to have disappeared,
> both from "iwlist scan" and the NM scanner.

Weird.