From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: wlan0 is sssloooow
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:59:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640611261159y641456b0r62bf956358296dce@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611261648.03512.sp_rm_it@yahoo.it>
On 11/26/06, Sergio Polini <sp_rm_it@yahoo.it> wrote:
> I can just notice an astonishing difference between metrics: 25 under
> Windows, 2000 (!) under Linux.
The absolute value of an interface metric is meaningless, they only
matter in relation to other interface metrics active at the time.
They are used to decide between interfaces when a host can be reached
through more than one interface. So for example, if you have a dialup
connection as well as broadband, you would want the broadband
connection to have a lower metric than the dialup so that it is the
'preferred' interface.
What do "ifconfig wlan" and "iwconfig wlan" report for the fast and
slow states? And the host that you are pinging, is a remote internet
host or something local (like 192.168.2.1)?
-Richard
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-26 15:48 [gentoo-user] OT: wlan0 is sssloooow Sergio Polini
2006-11-26 19:59 ` Richard Fish [this message]
2006-11-26 21:35 ` Sergio Polini
2006-11-26 22:08 ` [gentoo-user] Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration burmata
2006-11-26 22:31 ` Richard Fish
2006-11-27 5:32 ` burmata
2006-11-26 22:36 ` [gentoo-user] OT: wlan0 is sssloooow Richard Fish
2006-11-27 19:27 ` Sergio Polini
2006-11-27 19:28 ` Sergio Polini
2006-11-27 21:04 ` Sergio Polini
2006-11-27 21:48 ` Hans de Hartog
2006-11-27 22:54 ` Richard Fish
2006-11-28 21:53 ` [gentoo-user] OT: wlan0 is sssloooow [99% SOLVED] Sergio Polini
2006-12-11 20:56 ` [gentoo-user] OT: wlan0 is sssloooow [100% SOLVED] Sergio Polini
2006-12-12 8:15 ` Mick
2006-12-12 21:03 ` Sergio Polini
2006-12-12 9:08 ` Alan McKinnon
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