Wicd should allow for configuration of network metric
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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wicd |
In Progress
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Wishlist
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David Paleino |
Bug Description
Wicd should allow for configuration of network metric.
We ship computers with both wired and wireless interfaces. Ifupdown manages the wired interface, and wicd manages the wireless interface.
All works well, except when both interfaces create default routes, both with metric equal to 0. (The metric setting breaks the tie between multiple default routes.) For the wired connection, we simply add the metric argument in /etc/network/
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
metric 1
However, since the wired connection is much faster, we'd rather set the metric for eth0 to 0 and the metric for the wireless connection to 1, which would provide the best of all worlds.
A relatively simple fix is for wicd to provide an optional metric setting, which would be passed to ifmetric.
It would require a dependency to ifmetric, but there's not a downside to that AFAIK.
Happy Trails,
Loye Young
Isaac & Young Computer Company
Laredo, Texas
http://
Changed in wicd: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Incomplete |
Changed in wicd: | |
milestone: | none → vpb-alpha |
Changed in wicd: | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Changed in wicd: | |
milestone: | 2.0 → 1.7.2 |
assignee: | nobody → David Paleino (dpaleino) |
Changed in wicd: | |
milestone: | 1.7.2 → 1.7.3 |
Changed in wicd: | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in wicd: | |
milestone: | 1.7.3 → 1.7.4 |
Is there any advantage that ifmetric provides over just using "ifconfig metric"?