![]() ![]() Even worse, wicd is apparently abandoned: they closed down their forums due to spam bots, and there’s no reaction from developers on the official freenode IRC #wicd channel either. I don’t know either if there is any other network/connection manager out there to support this. I would expect it to be very distant in the future, if ever. There was a thread (called Wireless and Wired) on the official forum, one of the developers told A sad thing is that it doesn’t support this much weird setup at all. I use wicd to manage my wireless connections. Wifi-Ethernet bonding convergence in action Integration into the everydays # ![]() The failover (and failback) happens amazlingly fast, virtually no interrupt can be observed as you can see in this video: In this video I demonstrate the setup in use, where a bond0 interface is active on the primary wired eth0 that fails over to wlan0 upon disconnection of the wired ethernet cable. There is no special config need on the network rig, but it’s effective if and only if the wired connection and the wireless ESSID belong to the same layer 2 network segment. That is, only one interface is active at a time, where the wired Ethernet is the preferred. It can do all sort of standardized stuff like 802.3ad/LACP, broadcasting, 4 different kind of loadbalancing-in this scenario I need only the so called “Active-backup policy”. Today I was thinking of bonding, a stuff used to do failover/loadbalancing on wired ethernet interfaces, commonly used in the enterprise. Well, it looks like this is not the case any more. It’s because my laptop is assigned a different IP address on WiFi and on the wired network even if they belong to the same VLAN. When I’m at home, I dislike undocking my laptop to move around the house because of the Ethernet-to-WiFi switchover takes long seconds and all my TCP sessions like SSH get lost. ![]()
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