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Linux home networking part 2: Dynamic default route

After getting the IP addressing on my home LAN sorted out (described in part one) I decided to tackle another unusual aspect of my setup: there is no fixed default route, instead I have M hosts on the network, and a subset of N that have wireless Internet modems, which means that at any given [...]

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Linux home networking part 1: Static IP fall-back

NetworkManager has made it’s way into the top Linux distributions as the standard way to manage network interfaces on desktop/notebook computers. I like NetworkManager. It works well for both wired and wireless interfaces with DHCP, and using wireless security and authentication is a breeze. With more recent versions you can also configure static IP addresses, [...]

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