Can one have a static IP wired network connection with failover to wireless?

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jan 14 03:32:20 UTC 2013


On 01/13/2013 03:39 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 01/13/2013 03:52 AM, Chris Green wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 02:56:41PM -0800, NoOp wrote:
...
>>> Yes. I do this on all of my laptops when at home. If I unplug the hard
>>> wire, wifi picks up and connects to the default AP.
>>> 
>> ... but do they have static IP?  I know it works with dynamic, I have a
>> laptop like yours.
>> 
> 
> Yes. See:
> 
> <http://paste.ubuntu.com/1529445/>
> 
> In this case the static IP is 192.168.7.102 for both eth0 and wlan0.
> Notice that when I connect to wired from wireless the static IP address
> gets assigned to eth0. When I pull the wired, the wireless is started
> automatically & eth0 drops it's IP address.
> 
> Everything is standard network-manager configuration - 1 wired - 1 wireless.

Forgot to add that"

o 'From wireless to wired' means that the laptop was connected wireless
and all I did was plug in a standard ethernet cable.

o 'From wired to wireless' means that I unplugged the ethernet cable.

That's it. Nothing else required or done.

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