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Bug 165925 - autoselection of the active device
autoselection of the active device
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 469864
Product: gnome-netstatus
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
2.11.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Mark McLoughlin
Mark McLoughlin
: 169181 307461 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-02-01 13:00 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2008-06-24 10:10 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Sebastien Bacher 2005-02-01 13:00:14 UTC 
This bug has been opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/5941

"On a a system with multiple net connections (i.e. laptop with built in and
wireless card), the net monitor applet should discover which device is active
and report stats on that device. Curently, the applet must be told manually
which device to monitor.
...
Ok, I have eth0 and eth1. eth0 is my on board nic. eth1 is my wireless pcmcia
card, used only on occasion. Both eth devices are configured as dhdp clients.

Now, the applet runs at startup and I have told it to look at eth0 to report
usage on. Works fine. However, if later I boot and use only eth1 (pcmcia), the
applet will stay configured to eth0 rather than intelligently seeing that only
eth1 is active."
Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2005-03-14 14:41:07 UTC 
*** Bug 169181 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Christian Kirbach 2005-06-14 20:20:04 UTC 
*** Bug 307461 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Christian Kirbach 2005-06-14 20:22:04 UTC 
The dup is 2.11.x , raising version.

As this is something annoying me too, I am confirming the bug :)
Comment 4 Matt Keenan (IRC:MattMan) 2007-08-28 17:39:47 UTC 
I actually logged another bug WRT this issue and attached a simple patch to it :

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469864

this one should probably be closed as a dup of the newer one.
Comment 5 Calum Benson 2008-06-24 10:10:40 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 469864 ***