Need help configuring my network

[Darrin Chandler]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:49:11AM -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> This sounds overly similar to a problem I was discussing on another
> thread about having both wired ethernet and wireless on my laptop.  It
> seems something gets very confused when both interfaces are active. 
> Specifically, I was unable to browse web sites or ping hosts.  Turned
> out the ping was actually happening but not on the interface the
> system thought it was.

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> I also found that after about 20 minutes, something unknown would
> cause the wireless interface to correct itself and things began
> working again.  Wierd!!!

This sounds a lot like multiple dhcp interfaces. That just doesn't seem
to work very well. Which default route gets used, etc? When a dhclient
renews it's lease it can change your routing again after you think it
works. With 2 dhcp interfaces I've had things *start* working after a
while, and I've had things *stop* working after a while. The answer, of
course, is to use a discovery protocol, but not all devices serving dhcp
support that. :(

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