Mint vs MX kde Simultaneous LAN WAN connections

[JayM]

Network Manager can only use one network connection at a time as it's meant to be an extremely simple "just works" network manager. If you want to manually override this behavior you'll have to do some complex configuration and will probably have to figure it out yourself. See https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/ne ... DME.Debian and https://manpages.debian.org/buster/ifup ... .5.en.html.

[linuxtothebone]

OMG - thank you for the answer that is exactly the clarification I was looking for. Too flat out and totally inexperienced with coding level configuration stuff.

I have 5 questions of which I can probably answer the first

*Is there another network manager available that does not have the dual access networking limitation
*Is there anyone that can access both wireless and lan networks simultaneously
*Why did the priority setting have no effect when changed? and why is it there?
*What exactly is it that prevents the Network Manager from achieving this. Is it a program limitation or is it the fundamental networking principles and structuring that make designing programes that permit simultaneous connections to 2 or theoretically unlimited networks
*Can a single computer user account only connnect to one network at a time due to the nature of computing.

I am pretty sure that on my old linux mint machine I could use both lan and wireless, hmmmm...., I will check if that is still the case

[seaken64]

The terms Wireless or Wifi do not necessarily preclude being on the same "LAN". In fact, it is more usual that all access points are on the same LAN. It may be that you want to set each or your network interfaces (This is what we call the piece of hardware that allows the computer to interface with the physical networking equipment) to different LAN's or subnets.

The Network Manager may allow this maneuvering. If not you can accomplish this by editing the appropriate configuration files that MX refers to when setting up the IP addresses and other settings for each separate network interface. It is not common to use two separate subnets in personal desktop computing so MX may not support this in the GUI - I don't know. But someone here will probably help you sort it out.

I'm not saying that you NEED two subnets. But I am suggesting that it may allow you to attach to the NAS and the Wifi internet at the same time. But there will be sharing issues with this setup. May need a bridge of some kind to communicate between the two networks. This is just a shot in the dark and may not even be relevant. Networking can be quite complex.

Seaken64

[linuxtothebone]

SOLUTION?...

I have just tried using the lan and wireless internet connection at the same time on my linux mint cinnamon desktop, no issues I was able to surf the net and use the LAN with no issues.

Does anyone know why this is?

[Eadwine Rose]

You might get more traffic if you gave the topic title a more descriptive content

[linuxtothebone]

Thank you