Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-14 Severity: wishlist * Package name : ifmetric Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (that's me, Lennart Poettering) * URL : http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/~lennart/projects/ifmetric/ * License : GPL Description : ifmetric is a Linux tool for setting the metrics of all IPv4 routes attached to a given network interface at once.
What is ifmetric for? I have a laptop with an onboard ethernet and a PCMCIA WLAN card. I never remove the latter. If both devices are connected to a network I want to priorize the copper over the wireless connection: it is faster and not subject to a restrictive firewall. Both network devices have default routes, it is left to chance which route is the first one created, thus the one used. ifmetric can be used to force the copper route to be selected: it manipulates the metric field of all routes connected to a certain interface, thus priorizing traffic over interfaces. It is compatible with DHCP clients as it modifies the routes a posteriori. A single line up ifmetric $IFACE 1 on the WLAN configuration stanza in /etc/network/interfaces priorizes all other interfaces. The routes are modified by using the NETLINK API of Linux >= 2.2, ifmetric is compatible with both iproute2 and traditional net-utils. Only a single binary, autoconf/automake is used, manpage included. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux seth 2.4.21-3-686 #1 Sun Jul 20 16:11:09 EST 2003 i686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
