I've just installed a wireless lan card on my laptop (compaq armada M700 running red hat 9). I've set up both interfaces to not start on boot and to so I can start and stop them as a normal user. So after booting, ifup eth1 will fire up the wireless link. This works well. The problem comes if I want to move from wireless to wired or vice versa (e.g if I move to another part of my apartment where the wireless signal doesn't reach). In that case, any applications connect over the other lan connection will hang. The only clean way to switch networks is to reboot. I'm using dhcp to get ip addresses, and assigning different ip addresses to the two lan interfaces. So, my questions: How do other people deal with this? Is giving both interfaces the same ip address a bad thing? Would it help anyway? I'd appreciate any help with this. Thanks and regards, Chris Rouch PS This setup (orinico gold card, linksys access point) worked with very little effort under red hat 9. Just a few minutes configuring the access point and then everything just worked.
