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   The Natural Philosopher to bp@www.zefox.net   
   Re: Dual wifi connections in Bookworm   
   28 Nov 24 09:09:36   
   
   INTL 3:770/1 3:770/3   
   REPLYADDR tnp@invalid.invalid   
   REPLYTO 3:770/3.0 UUCP   
   MSGID:  38ff297a   
   REPLY:  c087c840   
   PID: SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
   On 27/11/2024 17:38, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:   
   > The Natural Philosopher  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Bob.. I dont *know* how linux routing copes with two interfaces to the   
   >> same network.   
   >>   
   >> Ideally it should open either at random, and since they have unique   
   >> source addresses pings should always get back. Nothing outside the   
   >> machine itself knows whether it has two interfaces or is in fact two   
   >> separate machines.   
   >>   
   >> I just know that my gut feeling is not to do that, at all.   
   >> When you have all these interfaces up, what does ifconfig show? and route?   
   >   
   > To start with, ifconfig reports   
   > wlan1: flags=4163  mtu 1500   
   >          inet 192.168.1.18  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255   
   >          inet6 fe80::26ee:3368:6e6c:aa6e  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20   
   >          ether 24:2f:d0:b9:54:f7  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)   
   >          RX packets 6896208  bytes 8657581257 (8.0 GiB)   
   >          RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0   
   >          TX packets 1647035  bytes 215681086 (205.6 MiB)   
   >          TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0   
   > and route reports   
   > Kernel IP routing table   
   > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface   
   > default         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG    601    0        0 wlan1   
   > 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     601    0        0 wlan1   
   >   
   > If I bring up wlan0 (the internal wifi interface then ifconfig reports   
   > wlan0: flags=4163  mtu 1500   
   >          inet 192.168.1.11  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255   
   >          inet6 fe80::98a0:b51e:4f4:236a  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20   
   >          ether 2c:cf:67:0f:10:64  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)   
   >          RX packets 108  bytes 15818 (15.4 KiB)   
   >          RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0   
   >          TX packets 1120  bytes 200215 (195.5 KiB)   
   >          TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0   
   >   
   > wlan1: flags=4163  mtu 1500   
   >          inet 192.168.1.18  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255   
   >          inet6 fe80::26ee:3368:6e6c:aa6e  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20   
   >          ether 24:2f:d0:b9:54:f7  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)   
   >          RX packets 6897155  bytes 8657817041 (8.0 GiB)   
   >          RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0   
   >          TX packets 1648196  bytes 215824139 (205.8 MiB)   
   >          TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0   
   > and route reports   
   > Kernel IP routing table   
   > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface   
   > default         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG    601    0        0 wlan1   
   > default         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG    602    0        0 wlan0   
   > 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     601    0        0 wlan1   
   > 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     602    0        0 wlan0   
   >   
   > At the moment, there's a ping session running to the gateway continuously.   
   > Times are sub-2ms unloaded, until I start loading a big page under chromium,   
   > whereupon ping times go.....dammit, everthing works just fine 8-(   
   >   
   > At the moment I'm baffled.   
   >   
   > Thanks for writing, apologies for the goose chase.   
   >   
   > bob prohaska   
   >   
      
   Well so you have two default routes  and two LAN routes but they have   
   the same target value.   
      
   That is interesting, but I cant say as to what the effect of that will be.   
      
   When Ive tried that here with ethernet and wifi, netmanager always shuts   
   don the wifi.   
      
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