On 17 January 2012 10:17, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:

And I think that the following statement, derived from the same URL, makes so much sense:

"It's perfectly normal, you cannot have two concurrent connections."

Imagine the following:

Both WLAN and Ethernet are active. Your LAN subnet is 192.168.x.x/24
Your WLAN has obtained 192.168.x.10/24 while your Ethernet has 192.168.x.11/24. In both cases, Gateway is 192.168.x.254.
What is the use??

Imagine another scenario, where the AP is wired to a different Internet provider while the Ethernet is wired also to a different Internet provider.

You get assigned two different network addresses on the WLAN and Ethernet. However, all traffic gets sent out via the Gateway with the highest METRIC (the lower number). It means some services fail unless you specify some static routes, right? Something along the lines:

route add -p 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 interfaceNUM (for WLAN)
route add -p 192.168.x.0 mask 255.255.255.0 interfaceNUM (for Ethernet)

Actually, someone please tell answer me this question: In scenario 2, suppose I want ALL Internet traffic to go out via WLAN and all LAN traffic to go through the Ethernet, are those commands really correct??

Hi Wash - this is very very correct.