Automatic reconnect to wireless network

[Derek Broughton]

Donn wrote:

>> It's easy enough to set up, but I don't actually know anybody who needs a
>> wired _and_ wireless connection working at the same time
> I needed one to get my laptop going. I had the LAN cable in to access the
> web interface of my Access Point while I tried to contact the AP from the
> wireless device. It works for a while but you get really screwy problems
> and Ubuntu would often freeze.
> 
>> Why would Windows do it either?
> Same kind of thing. It complains if the IP's are the same on both, but you
> can bring the ifaces up and there's no odd business.

But I can do that with a default Ubuntu setup too.  What you can't do with
the default is get it to _automatically_ bring up a wireless interface
while the wired interface is connected.  I don't see that being a problem
for 95% of users.
> 
> Another reason would be to contact two different networks from one
> machine.

Naturally - but this is a _business_ use case, it's not something that
almost any _home_ user needs.

> I am totally hopeless with networks, but I have it in my thick 
> head that an interface can only reach a certain network that it's
> related-to. So, if you have a 172.16.200.x host and a 192.168.blah.blah
> host and you want to reach both of them you might want to use LAN and
> wireless at the same time. Of course, me being a total idjit, there's
> probably better ways to do that :)

Yes, there are.
> 
> \d

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derek