Re: [gentoo-user] OT: wlan0 is sssloooow

[Hans de Hartog <dehartog@rootsr.com>]

Sergio Polini wrote:
<snip>
> default      23.252.112.1 0.0.0.0       UG    0      0     0 eth0
> default      192.168.2.1  0.0.0.0       UG    2000   0     0 wlan0
<snip>
I didn't follow this thread completeley but having two default routes
is definitly the cause of slow (or even unworkable) networking.

I would write a script that is run at bootlevel to determine if
you have eth0 or wlan0 or both and change things at the default
level accordingly (including dhcp, iptables, routing and maybe
other things as well).
I did this on several machines and laptops. If the existence of
wlan0 depends on a pcmcia card you can simply test it at bootlevel
with ifconfig. If wlan0 is always existing (e.g. by a pci-nic) but
you don't want to use it, you might create different ways of
booting the system (with or without wlan0) by suffixing your
kernelcommand in grub.conf with wlan0 or not and in your script
test with "grep wlan0 /proc/commandline" (or something like that).

Regards,
Hans.

-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list