Subj : Re: Dual wifi connections in Bookworm
To   : Michael Schwingen
From : The Natural Philosopher
Date : Wed Nov 27 2024 16:53:19

On 27/11/2024 14:54, Michael Schwingen wrote:
> On 2024-11-27, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> However the ability under windows to make BOTH of them the default
>> route, led to the TCP/IP stack using them in round robin to send TCP/IP
>> packets.
>
> I just checked on my laptop, which has (sometimes) ethernet and wireless
> connections to the same network, with separate IP addresses. This works just
> fine without any packet losses.
>
Oh. I wasn't meaning that that was the *exact* issue in this case. It
was merely a nice swipe at Micro$oft.

Linux doesn't allow of more than one default route.

*However* routing with more than one interface active is complex,
especially if they connect to the *same* network.

If you have two interfaces active on the same network, which one is
going to be used to access that network?

I am not claiming this is the answer, just that it may be due some
consideration.

> This is while running Debian, not raspbian, but at least it shows that this
> scenario can work on Linux - I am at a loss what happens on the problem
> machine.  Probably some tcpdump/wireshark tracing, maybe even on both sides
> of the access point, is required to get at the cause of the problem.
>
I think some careful thought and experimentation may get you there quicker.



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