Re: Laptop Connects to WAP, But Cannot Access 'Net [FIXED]

On 04/03/2012 11:37 AM Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Robby Workman wrote:
>
>> If you'd posted the config information and such as you were asked on
>> numerous occasions, I'd be willing to bet that someone would have noticed
>> that your static ip address on eth0 is in the same subnet as that assigned
>> by the wireless access point.  Remember when someone asked for your
>> routing tables?  That's why.
>
> Robby,
>
>     I wrote this before, but I'll do so again. The static IP address for eth0
> is 192.168.55.5. At this one coffee shop the IP address on wlan0 is
> 10.5.70.104.
>
>     The routing table showed the eth0 gateway as 192.168.55.4 and the wlan0
> gateway as 10.5.70.1.
>
>     There's a nice utility called ifplugd that brings up eth0 if there's a
> cable attached and brings down eth0 if the cable is removed. There's no
> slackbuild script for that (but there is for the required libdaemon), so
> I'll build these on the Sony, configure them, and test it at the coffee
> shop later today.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rich
Hm, I wonder if the "right" solution would be a multi-gateway one,
with possible simultaneous use of both even, but at least a simple
failover sequence. I'm surprised if what it's currently doing is just banging
on a dead eth0 gateway as default and not having the logic to see another opening.
(OOTB, I mean -- I'm (almost) sure there are ways to make it do it ;-)

BTW, can udev be made to handle this kind of thing dynamically/hotplug style
to keep up with changing multiple paths to the internet?

Regards,
Bengt Richter