Airport & ethernet at the same time?

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TerryMcK

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My basement home office is far enough from the cable modem and ABS that my signal is often very low or nonexistent -- so I use an ethernet connection -- and usually shut off Airport. Occasionally I forget. In that case--with both operating--which does the computer recognize?....and is there a problem with having both active?

I'll probably end up moving the ABS down here -- but in the meantime I'm curious.

Terry
15" PB, 768Meg RAM
& lots of toys
 
There should be no problem with having both active. And my guess is that the computer would use both, but I'm probably wrong.
 
You can use either, the machine should detect the best path to take.

But you can not use both at the same time, ie, having twice the bandwidth to move files, since I dont think OS X supports STP (Spanning tree protocol) which allows mutiple ports to be used at once, ie having the same IP on mutiple simultaneously, since both the machine and switch would have to support it, to get around infinite loops.

The only OS I know of that supports it is OpenBSD.
 
bob@bomar.us said:
You can use either, the machine should detect the best path to take.

But you can not use both at the same time, ie, having twice the bandwidth to move files, since I dont think OS X supports STP (Spanning tree protocol) which allows mutiple ports to be used at once, ie having the same IP on mutiple simultaneously, since both the machine and switch would have to support it, to get around infinite loops.

The only OS I know of that supports it is OpenBSD.
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I don't think so. You should be able to share your wireless connection over the lan, right? Of course not use the same pathes for the WAN, but you can use both connections as the same time. One example: share the dialup 56k modem for the lan which should be the same thing...
However, there is a priority in the connections. If lan is available, airport will not be used.
 
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